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Murder is a Girl's Best Friend

di Amanda Matetsky

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From the national bestselling author of Murderers Prefer Blondes.   All Paige Turner wants for Christmas is to make it through the season alive. New York City in 1954 can be bad for a girl's health, especially if she's a staff writer for a pulp mystery magazine who can't help getting a little too involved in her work. Not that she's looking for trouble this time; Detective Dan Street, her new love, has forbidden her from ever making like Sam Spade again.   But what's a girl to do when her late husband's army buddy turns up with a tale like something out of Daring Detective magazine? His sister murdered. A stash of diamonds to die for hidden in a box of oatmeal. The mystery is a Christmas present Paige can't resist opening. But with the killer hot on her trail, Paige faces the chilling possibility that this Christmas might be her last.   "Paige Turner is the liveliest, most charming detective to emerge in crime fiction in a long time. . . . She is irresistible, a force of nature."--Ann Waldron, author of The Princeton Murders "1950s New York City comes alive. . . . This is great writing by a fresh talent."--Nelson DeMille "Prepare to be utterly charmed by the irrepressible Paige Turner."--Dorothy Cannell… (altro)
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Badly overwritten and the characters are mostly two-dimensional, but this is not a bad story set in an interesting 1950s New York City.
Much of the dialogue is over-done, too, with too many screechy questions asked at, for example, a knock at the door.
The author should strive harder for some believability.
She also badly over-does some apparently intendedly cutesy-poo narrative as in "some phrase (okay, some other phrase)" on almost every page, and as many as FOUR TIMES on one page! When it's used that often, it is not funny: it is annoying.
Finally, sometimes I think it is demanded in order for a writer to get published, but I hate an author's sticking in her gratuitous left-collectivist beliefs. If it's relevant to the story? Maybe. But when it's not, when it's just more propaganda, it should not be there.
Publishers seem to choose writers and editors based on their belief system.
Anyway, the character's name is cute and even appropriate, but, in this book, there are more flaws than merits so I cannot recommend it except to the curious who have plenty of time. ( )
  morrisonhimself | Jul 5, 2023 |
Set in the 1950's, Paige Turner is a young writer for a mystery magazine who finds herself tangled up in a murder. Paige is asked to help solve a murder by her late husbands friend. Paige gets caught up in finding clues that she doesn't always think things through first. I would have liked her to have a little more backbone when it came to her work situation even if it was the 1950's. ( )
  rgleason14 | May 26, 2013 |
2nd in the Paige Turner series. As with the first, this one does a nice job of providing atmosphere of the period and women's place in it. The main character is engaging and the story moves along at a good clip as well. ( )
  drruth | Jul 5, 2006 |
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From the national bestselling author of Murderers Prefer Blondes.   All Paige Turner wants for Christmas is to make it through the season alive. New York City in 1954 can be bad for a girl's health, especially if she's a staff writer for a pulp mystery magazine who can't help getting a little too involved in her work. Not that she's looking for trouble this time; Detective Dan Street, her new love, has forbidden her from ever making like Sam Spade again.   But what's a girl to do when her late husband's army buddy turns up with a tale like something out of Daring Detective magazine? His sister murdered. A stash of diamonds to die for hidden in a box of oatmeal. The mystery is a Christmas present Paige can't resist opening. But with the killer hot on her trail, Paige faces the chilling possibility that this Christmas might be her last.   "Paige Turner is the liveliest, most charming detective to emerge in crime fiction in a long time. . . . She is irresistible, a force of nature."--Ann Waldron, author of The Princeton Murders "1950s New York City comes alive. . . . This is great writing by a fresh talent."--Nelson DeMille "Prepare to be utterly charmed by the irrepressible Paige Turner."--Dorothy Cannell

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