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.
I guess there are several other books in this series -- haven't read any of the others. It is fast-paced romantic suspense story where the main character is thrown into an unpredictable situation, involving the disappearance of a Hollywood starlet and the murder of the starlet's boyfriend with ties to several mob families. Some of the text is a little x-rated, fair warning.
First book I have read by van Wormer. Pretty readable with an interesting storyline. Putting all the mafioso names together at the end did not relive some of the complications of twisty story.