Murder in the Tattoo Parlor

When Joy wants to get a tattoo to surprise her fiancé Roy Stockton (and check 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 no signs 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 second thought. And although Joy is investigating something related to the tattoo parlor in her role as a reporter, she denies it has to do with the murder. If Francine wasn’t so worried the hard-nosed new police chief suspects the women 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, Francine must first survive motorcycle shopping with Charlotte, her husband’s first pedicure, a mistaken identity, handling a bad manicure and an unfortunate dye job, dodging a doctor too interested in Francine’s past, and taking a position within the tattoo parlor staff that may ink her own death.



Genre: Cozy Mystery