Shimmy Shimmy Homicide

Meet Esmeralda Fine...just call her Esme. Esme lives and works in Leicester, Connecticut, dubbed "The City With Village Charm." However, it isn't so charming the day she makes a grisly discovery that will turn her life topsy-turvy along with her zany group of belly dancing seniors. Enter, Lieutenant Ralph Kai, a transplanted Hawaiian homicide detective, built like a Sumo Wrestler, and his young sidekick, Officer James O'Reilly---affectionately known as Junior, who looks like he's just out of High School. Add a story of love, lost and found; a murder or two; the legend of priceless, stolen coins; a feisty little terrier cross named Streak and you have...Shimmy Shimmy Homicide, the first in A Belly Dancing Boomer Mystery series.

A belly dance instructor and performer for over 40 years, Rima Perlstein Riedel is a long-time resident of Manchester, Connecticut---a city not unlike Leicester. Rima is the author of a number of short stories, novellas, and plays written for and performed by her Manchester Youth/Senior Theater Troupe (MYST). Her stories and articles have appeared in "Scolastic Scope" and "Noir At The Salad Bar" by Level Best Books.