If Wishes Could Kill

Chaya Dirotte is going for her doctorate and is very pregnant - with her third child. So she's got a lot on her plate, including a good friend, Rina, who has been abused by her husband and desperately needs shelter. But when her friend's husband drops dead from a bad batch of stew, the authorities suspect that Rina may have come up with a permanent solution to her domestic problem. With Rina hidden away in a top-secret shelter, the police begin to wonder - How much did Chaya know? Previously published in The Fourth WomanSleuth Anthology (Irene Zahava, ed.), Crossing Press, 1991.