I was lying under the covers with K.C., hoping I wouldn''t do anything to mess up the delicate ecosystem of the moment. All it would take was the wrong remark from me-a suggestion that we plan a weekend at a charming inn in the Berkshires-and he''d b... Read more

I was lying under the covers with K.C., hoping I wouldn''t do anything to mess up the delicate ecosystem of the moment. All it would take was the wrong remark from me-a suggestion that we plan a weekend at a charming inn in the Berkshires-and he''d burn rubber on his way out the door. Then the phone rang... Meet Bailey Weggins, the thirty-something, single-again true crime writer for a leading Manhattan woman''s magazine. Smart and savvy, she''s got a sixth sense when it comes to seeing the truth in a story-especially if it''s murder.

If Looks Could Kill
Bailey''s in bed with her commitment-challenged lover K.C. when she gets a frantic call from her high-maintenance boss at Gloss magazine. Grabbing coffee and a cab outside her Greenwich Village apartment-the consolation prize in her divorce settlement-Bailey reluctantly heads uptown. At Cat Jones''s Upper East Side town house, she finds something that seriously clashes with the chic decor: the dead body of the family''s live-in nanny. As Bailey-unofficially-delves into the murdered girl''s past, she finds no shortage of A-list suspects. But when a startling discovery suggests that Cat may have been the intended victim, Bailey is suddenly up to her bed head in a high-profile investigation that''s perfect fodder for a tabloid headline: Is someone trying to kill the editors of women''s magazines?

With the spotlight on New York''s glitzy media world, Bailey interviews back-stabbing editors, straying husbands, and one sexy, six-feet-two psychologist who could make her decide to kick K.C. to the curb. Sporting her pair of red slingbacks and armed with the investigative skills she''s honed as a true crime reporter, she sets out on a search that takes her from Manhattan''s exclusive Carnegie Hill area-the nanny heartland of America-to the ritzy weekend estates of Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Bailey will need all her street smarts and some lightning-fast detective work to catch a killer who could end up deleting her name from the masthead for good. A novel that marks the debut of a sexy and wickedly entertaining new mystery series, If Looks Could Kill introduces a heroine whose blend of wry humor and gutsiness will win over readers everywhere. Less