The Celestial Buffet is the first collection of short mystery stories by the Anthony-Award winning author of the Jill Smith and Kiernan O'Shaughnessy detective tales. Among the 18 stories are five cases for cop Jill Smith and one for private-eye O'Shaughnessy, as well as two of the most imaginative detective stories ever written — tales of "The Celestial Detective" who investigates crimes in the afterlife. "Death," he explains, "is not all it's cracked up to be." The book also contains an intro-duction and prefaces to each story by the author and a Susan Dunlap checklist.