With her homeless friend Mr. Cheever, being charged with murder Peggy knows she has to search harder for the person who did it. She suspects it was one of the many women he was seeing. Soon she is working hard to prove that her friend is innocent. However, Peggy's investigation is making some one very uncomfortable and another mystery has her involved when someone is poisoned by a plant and dies. The online chess partner seems to know more than he should.

         Let us not forget the man who Peggy ran into the side of his car. He will come in handy as Peggy finds a Great Dane that follows her around. When she goes in search of the home of an old veterinarian whom she met a couple of time she finds Steve living there instead. He is a Vet. He offers to help Peggy with the Dane, and he wants to start dating her. Although it has been two years since her husband's death, Peggy is not sure if she is ready for a relationship, even if Steve is the first man to make her think about a relationship again.

      Pretty Poison is a wonderfully written story that is sure to keep any reader entertained. Each character in this book seems to be jumping out of the pages as the mystery is solved. This is one book you will just not be able to put down.