Bøker av Rhonda Blackhurst

A joyous Christmas festival. Two best friends. What could go wrong?Melanie Hogan, owner of A Cut Above hair salon, discovers the holidays aren't always jolly when she receives an unexpected gift at the Birch Haven Christmas Festival. A dead body.Best friend and salon co-owner, Claire Davis, lands herself as the lead suspect. When Melanie's boyfriend, Homicide Detective Levi Wescott, is booted off the case due to a conflict of interest, Melanie is compelled to find the real killer herself.With only days left to go until Christmas, Melanie races to give Claire the perfect gift-her freedom. But as she begins unwrapping secrets of some unsavory characters, the looming deadline leads to unusual reckless and impulsive decisions, and she finds herself in a bit of a quandary. Can she catch the real killer before Birch Haven PD is forced to solve her own murder?

When a body is discovered in the woods by Melanie's Minnesota lake house, it nearly gets both her and her estranged mother, Violet, killed. Melanie retreats to the familiar and comfortable surroundings of the beauty salon she owns with her best friend Claire, but when the details surrounding the death begin to unravel, Melanie is thrust into the middle of the investigation. When her grandmother, Rose Donnelly, is the next target, Melanie will stop at nothing to catch the killer. Melanie begins unraveling a tangled web of lies and deceit that finally reveals the painful truth of the question that has haunted her since youth. The truth that ultimately cuts her loose from the burden of her past that has held her captive for far too long and sets her on a path to freedom.

When a fitness center is a locale for both health and murder, exercise enthusiasts must weigh their odds of the outcome. Beauty salon owner, Melanie Hogan, decides an exercise regimen is long overdue and joins a gym, but she gets more for her money than sore abs. Not only does Melanie find a body, but she also finds herself at the center of the investigation. Again. Instead of improved muscle tone, Melanie gains a lesson in the perils that lurk beneath the surface of the health industry. Along with best friend and salon co-owner Claire Davis and Melanie's beau Detective Levi Wescott, they set out to clear her name while Melanie practices resistance training-resisting going to the gym to investigate. When the police eventually zero in on a salon employee, the team joins forces, getting a life-or-death workout. Will they all survive?