I was delighted to come across Fishy Business, edited by Linda Rodriguez. This book of 22 short stories is the fifth anthology in the Guppy Chapter of Sisters in Crime, and Rodriguez has to be congratulated for putting together an exciting collection of short stories ranging all the way from IT crimes (Susan Bickford’s “Payout Payback”) to a senior-center game of Scrabble (K.M. Rockwood’s “Scrabble-Rousers”). Two of my favorites are Lida Bushloper’s “The Wannabe,” wherein a would-be serial killer gets what’s coming to him, and Raegan Teller’s witty “The Great Negotiator,” a contemporary spin on the O. Henry classic “The Ransom of Red Chief.” This time the kidnapped brat is replaced by an acid-tongued mother-in-law, and the ending is laugh-out-loud funny.