Jaine Austen, a freelance writer in L.A. (not the other writer with the same name, but different spelling), has found a new friend to fill the void after her best friend finds love and begins planning a wedding. Pam is part of a group of women who meet once a week to discuss their lives over margaritas and guacamole. Jaine joins the group and finds the other members entertaining if not entirely lovable. When one of the members is murdered at Jaine's second meeting with spiked guacamole (peanut oil, targeting the member with a severe peanut allergy), Jaine hopes to clear the obvious suspect and track down the real culprit.
This series was new to me, and while it was fairly entertaining, I probably won't read anymore in the near future. The main character wasn't intriguing enough to me. Plus, I'm not a cat person, and Jaine has a very obnoxious cat that she supplies with imagined dialogue. I like Joanne Fluke's Hannah Swenson enough to overlook her obnoxious cat, but Jaine isn't in the same league.
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