Box of Rocks: A Maggie Gorski Mystery

At age 55, Maggie is losing the battle with her fear of failure and small designer dogs. At the advice of her psychiatrist, she and her friend Cher embark on a series of ill-conceived hobbies. Whether hunting for a fabled lizard man in the swamps of South Carolina, or panning for gold, their adventures are sure to test the limits of common sense. When archaeology student, Paul Lakeland stumbles too close to a secret goldmine, he becomes a liability to Bear’s clandestine mining operation. Bear’s attempts to kill Paul before he can leak the mine’s location meet with repeated disaster. The bumbling would-be assassin finally succeeds … in killing the wrong man. Paths cross in a small South Carolina town, where a secret from Cher’s past entangles the girls in a murder investigation. Here they learn that the first step to surviving a mid-life crisis is, don’t die.

I'm a middle-aged maven, winner of the 2012 Reader Views award for my humorous mystery, Box of Rocks, and six year survivor of southern living. Seriously, you should see the size of some of these spiders.