Off the Record

by Bonnie Hearn Hill

Journalist Geri LaRue is outraged when she loses the paper's "Off the Record" column to an insufferable colleague. To salvage her career and her waning self-confidence, Geri needs a break—and fast. The perfect story comes when successful businesswoman Kathleen Fowler is found dead—her battered body dropped from the balcony of her home to the cliffs below. But Geri doesn't have to chase this story; she inherits it. Somehow she has been named the murdered woman's sole beneficiary, despite never having met her.

As Geri sets out to discover why the estate has been left to her, everything leads back to her own troubled childhood. A childhood she would rather forget—the foster homes, the painful memories. And when another person is brutally murdered, Geri realizes that the key to finding a killer may be hidden in her own mind.

Genres: Fiction

384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 2006

About the author

Bonnie Hearn Hill's latest novel of suspense, THE RIVER BELOW, was described by Publishers Weekly as, a "poignant standalone (that) is as much a story about friendship and loss as it is a mystery."

Hill is the author of six thrillers from MIRA Books, the Star Crossed young adult series, and the Kit Doyle series, IF ANYTHING SHOULD HAPPEN (2015), GOODBYE FOREVER (2016), and I WISH YOU MISSED ME (2016). With Christopher Allan Poe, she wrote DIGITAL INK: WRITING KILLER FICTION IN THE E-BOOK AGE, a guide for novelists.


Her thrillers INTERN, KILLER BODY, MISTRESS, OFF THE RECORD, LAST WORDS, TIL MORNING, and CUTLINE are now available as e-books.

A national conference speaker and contest judge, she has is proud of the many published authors she has mentored.

Reviews

[Mark Braun · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good characters, not a sappy happy ending amongst characters.

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

In the third installment of the Geri La Rue series from Bonnie Hearn Hill, Off the Record, Geri returned in the conclusion of this trilogy that was filled with lots of surprised. Geri was outraged, when she lost out on landing the "Off the Record" column for her newspaper. Later, she learned she inherited an apple nursery from Kathleen Fowler, right after she was thrown off the cliff. For Geri, she followed the trail of clues and on who wanted her dead, leaving dead people in her wake. In return, she then discovered it had something to do with her past to face the killer, before she became next in line.

[Thelma · Rating 3 out of 5]

ok

[Rosie · Rating 5 out of 5]

great

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this story, not as much as cutline though. yet another page turner that got my friends wondering what was wrong.

[Kelsea]

DNF first book in series.

[Freida · Rating 4 out of 5]

Real page turner. Keeps you guessing all the way.