Mr. Murder

Sally Harrington #6

by Laura Van Wormer

This is #6 of the Sally Harrington mysteries and #10 of The Alexandra Chronicles.

As book reviewer Harriet Klausner said about Mr.
“Sally Harrington starts her new job as the host of “DBS News America This Morning” at the same time her hometown paper Castleford, Connecticut’s Daily Herald rips her up apparently because the editor is angry with her mother. However that is nothing compared to finding the corpse of Wilson Delafield, torched to death in his garden shed probably because the ace reporter exposed him as an animal arsonist. That follows up with the author of the nasty editorial beaten to death and left on the doorstep of Sally’s Connecticut house. The police know Sally is the link between the two homicides, but how is impossible to fathom.

Meanwhile Sally struggles in her personal life too. She enjoys her quality time with the much younger former California cop Paul Fitzwilliam. However at an affiliate convention, her other lover attorney David Waring arrives along with someone who plans to kill Sally. The key that keeps the Harrington tales fresh is the support cast; whether they are recurring or new, each is unique and brings fascinating perspectives to the story line. The villain is a mean individual seeking vengeance while Sally’s lovers are as competitive towards her as ever. However Sally remains the center as her career continues to take off with a lot of homicides in her wake. Fans of the series will enjoy Laura Van Wormer’s latest thriller.”

Genres: Mystery, Fiction

384 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Laura Van Wormer grew up in Darien, Connecticut, graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and has spent most of her adult life working in publishing. She is the author of eleven previous novels. The Kill Fee is the fifth in the Sally Harrington series, although some of the characters - most notably the group at DBS News - are in her earlier novels Riverside Drive, West End, Any Given Moment and Talk.

Laura divides her time between Manhattan and Meriden, Connecticut.

Reviews

[Coleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I saw the [Sally Harrington #6] behind the title of the book, some of the pieces of the puzzle in my heard seemed to fall into place. There were five previous books that I had not read, with characters and action that I knew nothing about. That explained a lot as to why the second half of the book I kept asking myself if I had skipped some pages or even a whole chapter. People's names I had never seen, things that had happened that I didn't know about...

Suffice to say that it is probably better to read series books in series.
That having been said, I found some of the book interesting which centered around celebrities on TV news stations and how they move from the news to the camera. Their personalities, their salaries, gowns, make-up, etc. Unfortunately one of the best characters, one that I liked the best is discarded for a character that I thought was a jerk. Why do authors write stories that have the bad becoming the good - and then our society thinks that the immoral is OK?

[Pat · Rating 3 out of 5]

OK. Sally from Castleford is a news journalist who is going to be on the air.
New show, news politics.
Boyfriend, then falls in live.
A Mafia guy kills others and sends Sally white flowers each time.
She is kidnapped and barely makes it.
Light, OK.

[Melody · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was okay. Though I won't recommend it to friends. The story is kinda dragging, more of centered around romance rather than the dramatic twists for murders and motives.

[Gretchen Stein · Rating 3 out of 5]

Last Sally Harrington series novel