Antique hunters Anne Hillstrom and CC Muller witness the tragic death of rising country star, Dave Southwell. The police determine Southwell's death is an accident. CC has her doubts, so when they are commissioned to hunt down musical antiques they head to Nashville looking for clues. Along the way, both women find romance, but new love gets put on the back burner when their snooping makes them a target for an unknown killer. Picking' Murder is the second book in the Antique Hunters Mystery series. Award-winning Chicago Tribune writer Vicki Vass is a finalist in the Mystery & Mayhem contest. She has traveled the world in search of the story, from a mud hut in the jungles of Southern Sudan to 40,000 feet above the Earth in a F16 fighter jet. With a passion for shopping and antiques, she turned in her reporter's notebook to chronicle the adventures of Anne and CC, the "Spoon Sisters," two antique hunters who use their skills to solve murder cases. Vicki lives in Chicago and Asheville NC with musician husband Brian, and cats Pixel and Terra, Australian Shepherds Atticus and Tracker who appear in all of her books. She loves reading, gardening, shopping and chocolate.