Writing a Wrong

by Betty Hechtman

Overview

Tony Richards hires Veronica Blackstone to write love letters for him, despite seemingly not needing her help. After he's found dead, the police reveal his name was Ted Roberts and believe he was killed during a robbery gone wrong. Veronica isn't convinced. Why did he lie about his name? Who were the letters for? Veronica's determined to find out.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781448310456
Publisher:	Severn House
Publication date:	05/30/2023
Series:	A Writer for Hire mystery , #2
Edition description:	Main - Large Print
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.79(w) x 8.74(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 - plus the first book, Murder Ink, in the Writer for Hire series published by Severn House. She lives with her family in Southern California.

Editorial Reviews

2021-06-16
Hechtman follows up her sterling debut, Murder Ink (2021), with another case for her erudite heroine.

Mystery author Veronica Blackstone may be hard at work on her second book, but her side hustles are what pay the rent. She runs a writers workshop and produces copy of all kinds for various businesses, with a specialty in love letters for the writing challenged. Her newest client, charismatic Tony Richards, claims to travel a lot and need love notes to keep his romance afloat. One of the members of her writers group is Ben, a cop who, like her, has been divorced and is gun-shy about relationships even after his sister, Veronica’s neighbor, pushes them together. Veronica’s just picked up several prospective clients: a young woman specializing in exotic ice cream, a well-known bakery and cafe seeking to expand, a family-run shoe store for children, and another young woman with an outdoor coffee stand. When a detective shows up asking her how she knows Ted Roberts, she’s at a loss until she realizes that he’s Tony Richards, who’s been found stabbed in a girlfriend’s apartment, and that he was a con man romancing women out of their money. Veronica’s not sure whether the sleuthing she can’t resist or her attempt to get closer to Ben is the more dangerous occupation.

Another convoluted puzzle with a side of romance.

Kirkus Reviews