To save an innocent man, a young woman gifted with spirit-writing must find the real killer in Wendy Roberts''s cozy mystery, Grounds to Kill.Barista Jen Hamby''s coworkers give her a hard time for bringing coffee and pastries to a homeless man who sits outside her café—but she has a secret. The scruffy man is her father.She''s also hiding the little matter of why her palm itches. But how can she explain that her hand has a mind of its own and writes messages from the beyond? Right. That''ll get her Employee of the Month.When she finds herself scrawling your boyfriend is cheating on you! to herself on the bathroom mirror, she immediately dumps the guy. But then his little fling—who just happens to be her half-sister—turns up dead, and suddenly Jen''s homeless father is the prime suspect.Jen knows he is being framed and must take matters into her own hands to protect him. But will anyone believe that the crazy old man is innocent? Or that his spirit-writing daughter holds the truth?"Roberts has a real winner with [Grounds to Kill]. Her main character takes readers on an out-of-this-world adventure to find her half-sister''s killer. Readers will laugh out loud at the relationship between the characters and be as invested in the outcome as they are." — Romantic Times , 4.5 stars
