Mr. Murder

Sally Harrington #6

by Laura Van Wormer

Sally Harrington may be growing up, but she isn’t settling down.

Life is taking some interesting turns as the fiercely bright and beautiful Sally Harrington starts her new job anchoring a newscast created just for her: DBS News America This Morning. For most people that would be enough excitement. But not for Sally. She has to be the last person to talk to a jet-setting millionaire who turns up dead shortly after their interview.

Murder isn’t the only distraction in Sally’s world, though. Her sexual liaison deepens with Paul Fitzwilliam, the twentysomething police officer who followed Sally east from California. And there’s still unfinished business with David Waring, the fortysomething married man she sent back to California.

And then suddenly the feds show up when an old acquaintance is left for dead at Sally’s home in Castleford, Connecticut. They’ve connected this attempted murder to the death of Sally’s infamous millionaire. And by the time anyone realizes that Sally herself might be the primary target, it may be too late to stop a killer from achieving his ultimate goal.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction

352 pages, Hardcover

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