A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD MYSTERY COLLECTION FULL OF UNEXPECTED ENDINGS.
In Murder Most Annoying, Carolyn Neville—book editor at a Manhattan publishing house—and sidekick, Stephen Ames, investigate fraud charges against one of their bestselling authors. When the Atlanta blogger who broke the fraud story is murdered, Carolyn and Stephen become chief suspects.
When a Seattle pharmaceutical company’s “miracle” drug kills several people in Murder Most Irritating, Carolyn and Stephen are pressed to come up with an instant bestseller surrounding the case. While trying to produce the book, they face a poisoned scientist, an impossible deadline, and jail.
During Murder Most Maddening, Carolyn and Stephen go to Motherlode, Colorado after an old friend is attacked and diagnosed as comatose. Gathering information on an unsolved murder case, all Carolyn wants is to see her friend honored—and a killer found.
Murder Most Hollywood follows Carolyn and Stephen on a movie set with a neurotic director and overbearing producer. After a series of accidents, Carolyn and Stephen begin to investigate the cause—which puts them both in colossal danger.
Carolyn and Stephen are evading an organized crime family in Murder Most Unlucky when an innocent man is murdered—mistaken for one of their authors. Can Carolyn survive while protecting her colleagues and taking down a seemingly bulletproof crime lord’s daughter?
Carolyn and Stephen have their hands full in Murder Most Illegal. Tackling one hurdle after another, they try to solve a murder involving a close friend while fending off a lawsuit by an author’s psychotic husband—all the while working at breakneck speeds.
For fans of Horace Rumpole, Monk and Stephanie Plum, the Carolyn Neville Mysteries are full of witty humor and suspense.