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by Nancy Star

As the new senior producer of the celebrated daytime gabfest Paula Live, May Morrison can barely juggle her time among her job, her two precocious daughters, and a post-Victorian dream house that's coming apart faster than her failed marriage did. But after rival talk-show producers start dropping faster than Nielsen ratings after sweeps week, the police believe May is behind their permanent cancellations. Then things get worse than a bad-hair day: every piece of evidence that criminally handsome Detective Paul O'Donnell has collected points to her. As the NYPD task force closes in, May realizes that someone has targeted her to take the fall. Now she's going to have to outwit a homicidal maniac who wants her dead, while resisting the arresting charms of one cop who wants her in prison, and another who simply wants her.

340 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1998

About the author

Nancy Star is the bestselling author of Sisters One, Two Three and five other novels including her latest, Rules For Moving, coming this Spring. Star’s novels have been translated into many languages, optioned for television, and chosen as Literary Guild and Mystery Guild Signature Series selections. In addition to her novels, Star’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Family Circle, among other publications. Before turning to writing fiction full-time, Star worked for over a decade as an executive in the movie business. She now lives with her husband in New Jersey. Visit her website: nancystarauthor.com and follow her on twitter: @nancystarauthor and instagram: @nancystarauthor

Reviews

[Pamela Mclaren · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first one seems to have taken a dive off his balcony, a possible suicide but the next and the one after that are definite murders. Someone is killing off producers of talk shows and soon, at "Paula Live," the producers and other staffers are looking at each other as if they have never worked with each other. May Morrison, swamped with work, raising two girls without a husband, and a home that seems to be falling apart, is starting to look like the prime suspect. In an industry where there is little trust and the competition is fierce, everyone has something to gain by the deaths and has wished the victims dead. But who followed through on their wishes?

With no airtight alibis and a growing mountain of clues piling up along with new victims, Morrison is not ready to stand by and wait for the murderer to go after her or the police to arrest her. She is doing the investigation of her life and raising against time.

A very good read.

[Sarah (SB) ღ]

Cause my Mama said so!