Killer Commute — Marlys Millhiser

SLIPPERY WHEN DEAD

California literary agent Charlie Greene starts her weeklong vacation by shutting off the phone, putting out the cat-and finding the body of her neighbor slumped in his SUV With nothing but her track record for stumbling onto bodies to incriminate her, Charlie becomes the prime suspect.

If paradise is seven days without a two-hour killer commute to Beverly Hills, then hell is a wild ride through suburban Long Beach with a killer stalking her condo complex. Charlie's dearly departed neighbor had some dangerous secrets involving bundles of hidden cash. Soon a strategically placed bomb, a temporary loss of hearing, a stint in jail-all topped off by the stunning events unfolding in her own backyard-lead Charlie to the inescapable conclusion that vacations really are murder.