Made-up for Murder: Mid-Life Mysteries #1

"You do the crime; you do the time."

Julia Melvin had repeated those words countless times as she raised her children, proud to be teaching them personal responsibility. She did not expect to hear them parroted back from her young adult son on her one phone call from the county jail following a small skirmish at a protest against animal testing at a local cosmetics company.

Upon her release, she vowed to change her criminal ways and stay far away from the protest site. And she did. Kind of. ...