Almost True Confessions
Closet Sleuth Spills All
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3.5 • 6 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Jane O’Connor, New York Times bestselling author, editor, and creator of the Fancy Nancy books for children presents Almost True Confessions, a mystery for grown-ups starring Miranda "Rannie" Bookman whom we met in Dangerous Admissions.
What could be more fun for a freelance copyeditor than a juicy exposé about one of Manhattan’s most beloved society doyennes?
But when Rannie arrives at the east side apartment of reclusive author Ret Sullivan, she finds more than the final draft of the manuscript waiting for her: tied to the bed and strangled with an Hermès scarf is Ret’s half-naked body.
Was this merely a case of rough sex that got a little too rough, as the police believe? Or was Ret murdered because someone didn’t want her to meet her deadline?
Once again, the heroine of Jane O’Connor’s Dangerous Admissions proves that her mind is just as sharp as her blue pencils in Almost True Confessions: Closet Sleuth Spills All, a mystery full of sly humor and romance.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
O'Connor's droll second romantic suspenser featuring incorrigibly curious Manhattan copy editor Miranda "Rannie" Bookman (after 2007's Dangerous Admissions) finds the divorced mother of two barely scraping by on freelance assignments from friends and former colleagues like Ellen Donahoe and handouts from loaded ex-mother-in-law Mary Lorimar. Which helps explain Rannie's excitement when Ellen hires her to handle the new top-secret tell-all on sainted society grande dame Charlotte Cummings by notorious celebrity skewerer Ret Sullivan that is, until Rannie goes to pick up the manuscript and finds Ret's body. A second murder puts Rannie on the sleuthing trail in earnest. As Rannie's increasingly dangerous digging takes her from Cummings's Palladian-style manse to a gala at the Metropolitan Museum, O'Connor serves up plenty of glitz and tangy social satire. The actual multiple murder mystery, however, never rises above the level of a last-suspect-standing TV movie.
