Frances Metzman has found the secret of presenting a mood in a short story that sometimes takes a novelist many pages to achieve. Her new short story collection, The Hungry Heart, combines tales of suspense, passion and empathy in artful and sophisticated story-telling.

The Hungry Heart: Stories.

Literature & Fiction

Frances Metzman

Literary

Wilderness House Press

Would you move a dead body for the sake of your best friend?Ask cha-cha babe Celia Ewing, a sixty-five-year-old widow who has just settled into Boca Pelicano Palms, the Florida retirement community of her dreams. When Celia's best friend Marcy calls her and their friend Deb for help in the middle of the night, they find a naked Marcy trapped under the body of her beau, the community's board president, Melvin. And he's dead. The three friends secretly move Melvin back to his apartment setting off a chain of events that will threaten to tear their community apart and send them to jail. Melvin is one of a number of residents who are dying under suspicious circumstances; and soon Celia becomes an amateur sleuth in an attempt to identify what she suspects is a serial murderer. 
Filled with humorous, witty observations about retirement communities, the realities of getting older, and the promise of new love, the Cha-Cha Babes of Pelican Way celebrates the deep bonds of female friendships, the desire for companionship at any age, and shows us that it's never too late to learn how to cha-cha through life.

The Cha-Cha Babes of Pelican Way

Wild River Consulting & Publishing, LLC

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The Hungry Heart: Stories.

The Cha-Cha Babes of Pelican Way