Step back in time to 1986 when newspapers were still the major source for retail ads. Here you will meet Cragan Collins who has a mountain of debts from her divorce and only wants to support herself and grandmother.

Taking a sales position at The Gazette, Decatur's local newspaper, she is befriended and mentored by reporter Robert Smithson. Cragan spends her days visiting local retailers trying to entice them to advertise, creating ads, and delivering and picking up ad copy. All the while being undermined by her ex-husband badmouthing her and a sales director who keeps reassigning her accounts to his buxom favorite on the staff!

And then Robert is murdered! When his death is dismissed as "gay on gay crime", Cragan turns to her Friday night mystery book club to help her find the truth behind Robert's death ...

An enjoyable mystery with believable though 'different' characters, an easy flow, and a plot that makes for fun a fun story to read. ( )