Sleuth Jane Jeffry's best friend, Shelley, and her husband buy a run-down theatre and donate it to the drama department of the local university. Shelley decides she'll try out new caterers for her husband's business on the theatre's volunteers. She persuades Jane to come along to help judge. It's inevitable that they get to know the cast and crew of the breezy period mystery. But life soon imitates art and a cast member is found dead. Jane and Shelley, between tasty snacks, speculate about the crime and the cast. The police are convinced it was an accident. Jane and Shelley are sure it isn't....

Alice Munro
Runaway

The stories in this collection are about women of all ages and circumstances. The runaway of the title story is a young woman who is incapable of leaving her husband. In another, a country girl emerging into the larger world via a job in a resort hotel discovers in a single moment of insight the limits and lies of passion. Three stories concern the same woman - in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild love affair; in the second, she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last, her vanished child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult.

Honey - 17 years old, vivacious, wealthy, a politician's daughter - has a penchant for drug dealers, mad-dog bikers, booze, sex and guns. She's run off with Cobra, the leader of a gang of bikers who have dubbed themselves the Outriders, having been too hot-headed and reckless for rival gangs. But her father, who is running for the U.S. Senate, wants her back before she takes his career down in flames. Enter Scott Weiss and Jim Bishop, private eyes. Bishop's assignment is to infiltrate the Outriders and seduce Honey away from Cobra. But has Bishop finally met his match? Is Honey too hot to handle?