For the past several years, Bailey Weggins has been under contract with Gloss to write crime and human-interest stories for the magazine, which is headed by her friend, Cat. With slumping sales, Cat has to make some changes in the focus of the magazine, so Bailey finds herself without a job.
However, Bailey's job search is short-lived following drinks with her old friend Robby Hart, who's now an editor at the hot celebrity gossip rag, Buzz. Robby wants Bailey to write about celebrity crime in a more journalistic way, so as to improve the magazine's reputation. The head of Buzz is Mona Hodges, and she's a force to be reckoned with in the industry. When Mona is found murdered in her office late one night, the prime suspect becomes Robby. It doesn't take Bailey long to become involved in clearing her friend's name and in solving the crime, like she's done in the past. Of course, there's a long list of probable suspects, as it seems everyone Mona ever knew wanted her dead.
Once again, the intrepid Bailey Weggins comes out a winner, even if her life is sometimes in chaos. In this fourth installment of the series, White has written another page- tuner with a great cast of supporting characters.
Talk about rapid turnover-in a matter of days Bailey
Weggins gets axed from one New York magazine and hired by
another. Her new job at Buzz, a weekly filled with sizzling
gossip, has Bailey covering celebrity crime, including the
starlet who got caught stuffing Fendi purses down her pants
and the aging hunk who shot his lover with a Magnum.
And Bailey doesn't have to look far for her next story: she
finds her boss, Mona Hodges, gasping her last breath after
being bludgeoned with a blunt object. A raging tyrant, Mona
made Buzz a top 'zine but racked up an impressive enemy
list along the way. Everyone from a chubby singer she
dubbed "Fat Chance" to a mail guy she once reamed out would
be glad to see Mona six feet under. And Bailey Weggins
intends to get the scoop on whodunit even though one of her
closest friends is at the top of the suspect list.
Now,
with her strappy sandals in one hand and her cell phone in
the other, Bailey's out hunting for clues everywhere from
the mean streets of Brooklyn's Little Odessa to a posh
company picnic in the Hamptons. In just about a New York
minute she's got a crush on a sexy filmmaker-and some scary
insight into her boss's murder. The first can give her the
hot summer fling she's itching to have. The second can get
her killed...
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