Caroline Taylor is the author of four mystery novels and a nonfiction book. Her short stories are listed at www.carolinestories.com. A collection of those stories, Enough! Thirty Stories of Fielding Life's Curve Balls, was published in 2018. She is a member of the North Carolina Writers' Network, Sisters in Crime, and Mystery Writers of America. A long-time resident of the District of Columbia, she now lives in North Carolina.

Death in Delmarva

Daphne Dunn works as a lowly stockroom clerk in her cousin's Foggy Bottom grocery store. She's also required to play bill collector to customers who aren't paying for their food, including pregnant Beatriz Cabeza de Vaca, who used to keep house for Daphne's family in better times. When Beatriz is stabbed to death outside her apartment, Daphne learns the baby has survived and sets out to find the baby's missing father. She gets sidetracked when a friend facing life-threatening surgery asks Daphne to locate his sister, Charlie. Except for the lip ring and a nasty drug habit, Charlie could be Daphne's twin. The search for both people leads Daphne to the Delmarva Peninsula and a woman so desperate to cover her crimes that she will kill anyone in her way, including Charlie and quite possibly the girl's mirror image, Daphne Dunn.