"LaTisha Barnhart's bunions tell her something's afoot as she delves deeper into the murder of her former employer, Marion Peters. When LaTisha becomes a suspect, the ante is upped, and she is determined to clear her name and find the real culprit. She's burping Mark Hamm's bad cooking to investigate his beef with Marion, getting her hair styled at a high falutin' beauty parlor to see what has Regina Rogane in a snarl, playing self-appointed matchmaker between the local police chief and a prime suspect, and thinking Payton O'Mahney's music store lease might be the reason he's singing out of tune when discussion of Marion's murder arises. LaTisha's thinking she just might use the reward money to get her bunions surgically removed. But she's got to catch the crook first" -- p. [4] of cover.