The Hummingbird Wizard
When her oldest friend, Jerry, mysteriously turns up dead, widow Annie Szabo is forced into an uneasy alliance with Madam Ina, her powerful former mother-in-law and matriarch of a proud Gypsy clan, to find a killer with a dark and hidden agenda, using ancient curses, strange love magic, a Gypsy P.I., and other unusual resources to solve the crime. A first novel. Reprint.