Installment #5 of the Jaine Austen Mystery series, a series new to me, provided just the lightness I was looking for on a day home with a virus. Jaine Austen, a freelance writer in Los Angeles, is living on a shoestring with her overweight cat named Prozac. She meets an out-of-work actress, Pam, in the communal dressing room at the Bargain Barn clothing store and they connect over frustrations with clothing not fitting. Pam invites Jaine to a weekly meeting of the PMS Club, a group of six women and one gay man who gather to "bitch and moan." The first meeting goes well enough that Jaine decides to join the group. However, the second meeting that Jaine attends ends when one of its most annoying members dies, apparently from the guacamole being spiked with a peanut product, something that everyone there knew the woman was allergic to.
When news of the murder hits the front page of the LA Times, along with photos of all the members of the PMS Club, a job offer that Jaine had just received to write a newsletter for a bank is put on hold until after Jaine is no longer a suspect. Jaine decides she needs to find out who the murderer is so that she can get that job at the bank without further delay. I found this to be a very funny "chick flick" kind of book. (Or maybe that's just the cold medicine talking!)
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