A Diet to Die For Author:Joan Hess Claire Malloy doesn't see how a nice tea party can lead to murder. However, she's unaware how meddlesome Joanie Powel, her downstairs neighbor, is until Maribeth Galleston, heiress to the Farber fortune, shyly enters the room. Maribeth is burdened with obesity, a bullying husband, and a severe case of depression, but Joanie intends to help by ... more »coercing Maribeth into enrolling at the Ultima Diet Center. The diet seems to be succeeding, although Maribeth's behavior is becoming more peculiar by the minute. When Maribeth's car crashes through the glass door of the diet center, resulting in the death of an employee, Lt. Peter Rosen is willing to blame it on the severity of the rigid diet, but Claire decides to investigate and soon discovers that everyone seems to be having illicit affairs, including Maribeth, her husband, the physician, his wife, the receptionist and even the aerobics instructor. If it's murder, who's got the motive? the opportunity? And can Claire, who is deeply opposed to sweat on principle, survive a forty-minute aerobics class to learn the truth?« less