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Over Her Dead Body by Kate White

Over Her Dead Body

by Kate White

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  • Jul 2005, 384 pages
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If Bailey Weggins wanted job security, she should have stayed out of the magazine business. After getting the heave-ho from Gloss, she reaches out to her old friend Robbie Hart for help. A senior editor at Now, a sizzling celebrity gossip mag, Robbie would love nothing more than to see his own boss, Mona Hodges, sent to the guillotine. Mona runs Now with an iron fist, taking no prisoners and doing no favors. But Robbie still manages to land Bailey a job. Then Mona is brutally murdered, and all eyes turn to Robbie as the prime suspect. But as Bailey soon discovers, just about everyone wanted Mona dead....

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Starred Review: Sharper than a stiletto heel, funnier than a bad dye job and full of fuchsia herrings.' - PW
"'It's common in the mystery genre for sleuth to outweigh story or vice versa. Not here. Readers, especially those who have followed Bailey through the three previous books, are every bit as interested in her welfare (and personal life) as they are in finding out who killed Mona and why. Bailey's back!' - Booklist.

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Kate White Author Biography

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Kate White is an American writer, magazine editor, and speaker. She served as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan from 1998 to 2012. She is also a critically acclaimed author of both fiction and nonfiction books, including I Shouldn't Be Telling You This , 9 Secrets of Women Who Get Everything They Want, Lethally Blond, and Hush.

White currently resides in Manhattan with her husband and two children. She is also the editor of The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook.

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