When Claudia Connors returns from Vegas with a new husband, actor Lance Ledeaux, the Bunco Babes are shocked. Lance has plans to produce and star in a play he has written. When he's killed during rehearsal, Claudia is literally holding the smoking gun.

"'Trusty' Rusty Tulley and Chip Balboa swing by Brandywine Creek--just in time for the town's annual Oktoberfest, which has cinnamon, cloves, and cardamom flying off Piper's shelves in record numbers. News spreads faster than a text message, and [Piper's former mother-in-law] Melly is the toast of the town. But it isn't long before Melly's status changes to public enemy number one when Chip's body is found at the foot of her basement stairs. Questions...

Bunco is Kate McCall's game, not gardening. But it starts to grow on her when she's invited to Serenity Cove Estate's gardening club banquet. When renowned botanist and gardening celeb Shelia falls ill and her husband dies, the Bunco Babes have a landscape of suspects to weed through...