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Jane Jeffry, a suburbanite homemaker, surprises everyone by turning to murder mystery as a hobby. With her best friend Shelley Nowack, she attends a major mystery writers' convention to network and promote her manuscript. But the event soon becomes a crime scene when an ego‑shattering editor is poisoned and a disparaged journalist is attacked in the parking lot. Jane and Shelley dive into a web of gossip, eavesdropping, and clues, and they find that the killer is far more elusive—and deadly—than they imagined.
First publish date: 2003
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Cozy Mystery
Authors: Jill Churchill
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