Secrets and Lies

Five short crime stories by Lauryn Christopher.
Lemonade and Larceny
When a silly law forbids Effie Birmingham from practicing her trade as a psychic, she feels obliged to break it!A Little Casual Blackmail
A housewife's eavesdropping on the neighbors escalates from entertainment to entrepreneurship...The Goddess Killer
Tommy has to choose which of the women in his life – his mother, his wife, or his daughter – he loves the best.The Man in the Gabardine Suit
Who was the "man in the gabardine suit" from the Simon & Garfunkel song? Why was he on that bus in the first place?Mistletoe and Murder
When the members of a highly dysfunctional family are snowed-in for the holidays, tempers flare, secrets are revealed, and someone's bound to die...