Your Killin' Heart
A Mystery
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- USD 11.99
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- USD 11.99
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With Your Killin’ Heart, award-winning author Peggy O’Neal Peden has given us a witty debut full of Nashville charm and generous heart.
Contrary to popular belief, not everyone in Nashville is an aspiring country music star. Campbell Hall, for one, just wants to get her travel agency off the ground and move on from a break-up. But when she gets the opportunity to visit the mansion of mysterious country icon Jake Miller, she jumps at the chance. After all, who knows what clues are lurking around the long-dead star’s last home?
But as Campbell pokes around, she discovers more than a few sequined suits and priceless memorabilia. She finds Hazel Miller, Jake’s widow, quietly resting in a bedroom on the main floor. But Hazel might just be dead quiet. And Campbell might just be the last person to have seen her alive.
Juggling the twisty plots of high-profile country stars with her blossoming business—not to mention the tattered remains of her love life—Campbell thinks she’s got everything figured out. But when the danger becomes personal, she must uncover a killer who will stop at nothing to get what they want—or face the music.
Winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition
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Because Nashville travel agent Campbell Hale, the narrator of Peden's middling debut, is a fan of deceased country star Jake Miller (whose life and work resemble that of Hank Williams), she jumps at the chance to accompany her sometime boyfriend, lawyer Doug Elliott, as he retrieves some paintings from the home of Jake's widow, Hazel, for his art dealer brother. The curious Campbell stumbles on a too-still Hazel in bed and realizes later that the woman may have been murdered. Campbell sifts the circumstances of Hazel and Jake's lives, discovering an illegitimate child, a resentful grandson, a former mistress, an opportunistic assistant, and a well-connected attorney who wants to keep the Miller secrets off the front page. Warnings from handsome detective Sam Davis fail to deter Campbell, who encounters threats and attempts on her life. An insufficient array of suspects and detection a step removed from the action undermine the delivery of the promising premise.
