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Arriving at her mother's Connecticut estate to make plans for her forthcoming wedding, romance novelist and amateur sleuth Pay McKenna stumbles into a murder in which her eccentric relatives are the prime suspects...
A "tour de force" mystery in the Edgar Awardâ€"nominated series featuring a writer who not only covers murder cases, but cracks them too (Publishers Weekly). An exhausted Patience McKenna is attending a benefit at a Baltimore bookstor...
McKenna investigates the first casualty in a New York literary war The romance boom has ended, and the women who made fortunes writing bodice-rippers are now scribbling mysteries instead. When the genre’s “true” authors fight back, a battle ...
On her first day at a new office, McKenna is greeted with a corpse Writing Enterprises makes Patience McKenna sick. A onetime romance novelist, she has recently vaulted into the arena of true crime -- a happy side effect of being too close to a hi...
When a literary agent is murdered, every bodice-ripping author is a suspect The nation’s most famous romance authors are often so over-the-top that they could star in their own work. Catty, eccentric, and vain, they live to make each other miser...