Another of Julie Smith's books is free again. If you are new to MR, her books frequently cycle through being free, or being reduced to $0.99, but they don't stay free or reduced for very long. If you are patient you can eventually pick up pretty much all of them for free.
Today's freebie is:
Death Turns a Trick, which is the first in Smith's Rebecca Schwartz mystery series.
Link:
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Turns-Tr...dp/B008S695AO/
Blurb:
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The FIRST book in the Rebecca Schwartz mystery series by Edgar Award Winner Julie Smith.
“Funny and witty, with a clever, outspoken heroine.” -Library Journal
“Rebecca’s lively first-person narration brands her a new detective to watch.” -Wilson Library Bulletin
A ROLLICKING TALE OF MURDER, ROMANCE, AND A BORDELLO…
“A lively romp of a novel … Smith shows an Agatha Christie-like capacity for making much ado about clues, concocting straw hypotheses, and surprising us, in the end … Smith’s crisp storytelling … and her likable, unpredictable heroine will make readers look forward to more.” -San Francisco Chronicle
Rebecca Schwartz, nice Jewish lawyer with a few too many fantasies, is happily playing the piano in a whorehouse when she suddenly finds herself assigned to make sure a near-naked state senator escapes a police raid. That dirty job done, a lovely evening turns even more delightful when she’s picked up by the cops and spends the next two hours at the Hall of Justice. Could this day get any worse? Of Course! Guess who arrives home to find a dead hooker on her living room floor!
Handsome Parker Phillips, Rebecca’s new beau and the most attractive man she’s met in ages, is arrested for the murder. (Worse, she suspects he might actually have done it.)
On the plus side, another very attractive man is following the case--reporter Rob Burns of the San Francisco Chronicle, a possible ally. And there are other possibilities.
Fans of Janet Evanovich, Stephanie Bond, and Elizabeth Peters will get a kick out of this one.
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