Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating forty men in sixty days as research for a radio talk show host's upcoming book. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescado—a state-run mental hospital—and is taken hostage by a charismatic “doctor” who is on the run from the Mob. Wollie fears that her beloved brother, a paranoid schizophrenic living at Rio Pescado, is involved in the murder, so rather than go to the authorities, she decides to solve the crime on her own. As she meets up with an array of small-time crooks and swaggering mobsters only slightly more sinister than the men she's been dating, Wollie realizes that to find true love she'll first have to avoid getting killed!

Actress and author Harley Jane Kozak starred in movies such as Parenthood, When Harry Met Sally..., and Arachnophobia, and on television in the soap operas The Guiding Light and Santa Barbara. She has written two additional novels featuring greeting card designer and amateur sleuth Wollie Shelley, Dating Is Murder and Dead Ex (which is available from Sound Library®). She lives in Topanga Canyon, California.