Murder in the Tattoo Parlor — Tony Perona

When Joy wants to get a tattoo to surprise her fiancé Roy Stockton (andcheck off another Bucket List item) she arranges for it to be late at night.Taking Francine and Charlotte with her for moral support, they find nosigns of life in the tattoo parlor and for good reason: the tattoo artist is dead,and the women are pretty sure it's murder.But Francine seems to be the only one who wants to find out why he died.Charlotte is obsessed with motorcycles, Mary Ruth is into internet dating,and Alice is too wrapped up in her real estate deals to give it a secondthought. And although Joy is investigating something related to the tattooparlor in her role as a reporter, she denies it has to do with the murder. IfFrancine wasn't so worried the hard-nosed new police chief suspects thewomen of perjury, she wouldn't be so determined to get to the bottom of it.But before she can uncover why the tattoo artist was murdered, Francinemust first survive motorcycle shopping with Charlotte, her husband's firstpedicure, a mistaken identity, handling a bad manicure and an unfortunatedye job, dodging a doctor too interested in Francine's past, and taking aposition within the tattoo parlor staff that may ink her own death.