Henry Carter Hull

"Think the Sinful Ladies Society runs Sinful? Think again. I'm Merlin. Yeah, Fortune Redding's cat. I'm with the Sinful Feline League. And together with older-than-the-Sphinx Lula Mae and her sidekick, Spoolie, we solve mysteries and protect the welfare of cats all along the bayou. We make sure life is good for the cats of Sinful. Until one of us goes missing. Then another. And another. Something doesn't smell right, and it's not the kitty litter. Merlin's...

It's 1961 and the original Swamp Team 3 are a week away from becoming members of the Women's Army Corps. But they have two urgent matters to attend to before they leave: Prevent Gertie's cousin, Barbara, from marrying Harvey Chicoron and settle a score with their arch enemy, Celia. It's a simple mission. Until they discover a mysterious stranger has been tracking their every move. Who is he? And why is he also stalking Marge's Aunt Louanne, a woman...

Hell has finally frozen over. Gertie's getting married! Or... is she? When a charming gold-digger by the name of Cliff Dow comes to Sinful and steals from their friend, Marie, the Swamp Team 3 decides to get even by publicly shaming him at the "When Hell Freezes Over" wedding of the century. And everything's going according to plan until... Well, this is Sinful after all. Meanwhile, a mystery woman also arrives. She says she's a FEMA representative....

Amid fears of her location being compromised, Fortune is extricated from Sinful in the middle of the night and relocated to a 55-plus trailer park in the Arizona desert, where she is to pose as the niece of recently deceased Olive, a woman many there think was murdered. Harrison gives her one order: Under no circumstances should she have any contact with anyone back in Sinful. Yeah, like that's going to happen.

Fortune takes on her toughest assignment yet: temporary librarian at the Sinful Library. Join her as she muddles through the Little Sinful Readers' Book Hour, discovers a dying man in the reference section, endures a fiasco at the Mudbug Roller World (where Gertie and Ida Belle reprise their roles as Roller Derby Queens), and faces not one, not two, but three attempts on her life.

It's 1970. Hip huggers are the rage. A letter costs six cents to mail. The Carpenters long to be "Close to You."And Ida Belle, Gertie and Marge (the original Swamp Team 3) return to Sinful from a ten-year stint as spies in Vietnam, hoping for a little R&R and looking for a house they can share.Their R&R quickly becomes murder, literally, as they check out a rental and discover the body of property manager Wade Guillory dead on the kitchen floor. Suspicion...