Murder Ink

by Betty Hechtman

Overview

Asked to write a celebration of life book for the funeral of a former client, writer for hire Veronica Blackstone finds herself questioning the death. No one quite knows what happened and the prominent family are more concerned with their image than the truth. While celebrating her client's life, Veronica searches for the truth about her death.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780727890177
Publisher:	Severn House
Publication date:	02/02/2021
Series:	A Writer for Hire mystery , #1
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.98(h) x (d)

About the Author

Despite completing a Fine Arts degree, all Betty Hechtman ever wanted to be was a writer. She wrote a weekly column in her college newspaper and later wrote magazine and newspaper pieces, along with short stories and a prize-wining screenplay. Betty had her first novel published in 2006. Since then she has had 20 books published across two cozy mystery series centered on another one of her loves - yarn craft. She lives with her family in Southern California. www.bettyhechtman.com Facebook: Betty Hechtman Author

Editorial Reviews

2020-11-18
Hechtman abandons her usual crafters to present an altogether more cerebral heroine.

Veronica Blackstone is a writer for hire. The unfinished follow-up to her national bestseller is sitting on a shelf. As she tries to overcome writer’s block, she keeps her hand in by running a writers’ group and taking on various assignments. Her latest gigs are creating notes for Evan, a computer nerd angling for a date with an attractive co-worker, and writing a biography for distribution at the funeral service of Rachel Parker, whose wedding vows Veronica wrote only a year ago. Rachel, who seemed to Veronica to be wildly happy, has either fallen or jumped from her apartment balcony. Her wealthy parents prefer that her death be ruled an accident. As she researches Rachel's biography, though, Veronica becomes convinced that she may have been pushed, and her snooping attracts unwanted attention. Rachel loved teaching, had joined a dance gym, and had a handsome, charismatic husband in Luke. But she seems to have developed delusions, and now someone is gaslighting Veronica, trying to convince her that she too is losing her mind. Police officer Ben Monroe, a member of the writing group, advises her to drop her investigation. As she follows in Rachel’s footsteps, determined to uncover the truth, Veronica becomes more involved in Evan’s dating woes even as she fights an attraction to Ben, who like her is divorced and gun-shy.

Plenty of plot twists and an appealing heroine with a reluctant love interest. What’s not to like?

Kirkus Reviews

“Plenty of plot twists and an appealing heroine with a reluctant love interest. What’s not to like?” – Kirkus Reviews

Thought-provoking… A sympathetic heroine coping with her own losses and colorful characters from a writer’s group combine nicely with an intriguing plot involving class and abuse. Readers will look forward to future installments - Publishers Weekly

Hechtman vividly captures the pre-pandemic bustle of Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in this engaging series debut Booklist

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