Nora Blackbird may have been to the manor borne but these days money is so tight she cant afford to lose her job as a society columnist. So when her new boss at the Philadelphia Intelligencer Australian tabloid editor Gus Hardwicke tells her to work the celebrity gossip beat or start checking the want ads the choice is easy. Now Noras writing a profile on billionaire fashion designer Swain Starr who recently retired to build a high tech organic farm...

Nora Blackbird has made the society pages yet again.  The impoverished Philadelphia heiress has agreed to wed Mick Abruzzo, son of New Jersey’s most notorious mobster.  Now Nora has to help him survive the Blackbird curse: Every time a Blackbird sister marries, the groom is bound to die.
 
But Nora’s superstitions are eclipsed by some ominous news.  Penny Devine, ex-Hollywood starlet and daughter of the Philadelphia...

When her boss is found bound in pantyhose and shot execution style, Nora Blackbird launches an investigation that brings her face to face with some of the most glamorous suspects in the City of Brotherly Love.

"Nora has to deal with the bump-and-grind of her personal life and also bring the curtain down on a daring killer--before he forces her to exit stage left, permanently"--

Impoverished Philadelphia heiress Nora Blackbird has agreed to wed Mick Abruzzo, son of New Jersey's most notorious mobster, leaving the city's bluebloods in shock. Then Nora and her sisters get some ominous news -- Sweet Penny Devine, ex-Hollywood starlet and daughter of the Philadelphia Devines, has mysteriously disappeared. Even stranger, her family wants her declared dead pronto. Could someone have plotted her final act? Now it's up to the Blackbird...