Christine Matthews

"Gloria Watson, an experienced private investigator, read somewhere that every seven years a life should be rebooted. Inspired by that thought she moves from Chicago to Laughlin, Nevada. After setting her new office up, she meets with her first client. Wyatt Burns had dated a woman now convicted of murder but he knows she's innocent because he's been stalking her for months. In fact, he was looking through a window and witnessed the crime. He's come...

Never before published stories by Nevada Barr, Barbara Collins, Carole Nelson Douglas, Eileen Dreyer, Vicki Hendricks, Suzann Ledbetter, Elizabeth Massie, Christine Matthews, Denise Mina, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, S.J. Rozan, and Julie Smith. In the expert hands of fourteen story tellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning.