The Bad Break
A Riley Ellison Mystery
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Publisher Description
Riley Ellison has taken a great leap of faith by giving up her comfortable job at the Tuttle Corner Library for the exciting world of print journalism. Except that so far it hasn't been very exciting. All that changes when Riley's former co-worker Tabitha finds her soon-to-be father-in-law dead on the floor of his office, and Riley is asked to write his obituary. And when they discover Tabitha's fiancé's knife sticking out of his father's chest, Riley finds herself with a murder investigation to cover as well.
With Holman out on leave and mounting pressure from her boss, the mayor, and a bridezilla facing the possibility of a conjugal-visit honeymoon, Riley is desperate to prove she can handle the increasing demands of her new job. Despite warnings from her new boyfriend Jay, Riley blurs the line between reporter and investigator. Will Riley's rookie mistakes lead to more than just her byline ending up on the obituary page?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Orr's enjoyable sequel to 2017's The Good Byline, Tabitha St. Simon, Riley Ellison's coworker at the Tuttle Times, calls Riley, aspiring journalist and obituary underling at the newspaper, when she finds her future father-in-law, prominent cardiologist Arthur Davenport, lying dead on the office floor of his Tuttle, Va., home. Riley calls acting sheriff Carl Haight and deputy Chip "Butter" Churner, who are convinced by the knife in Arthur's chest that it's a homicide. Riley seizes the chance to pitch writing the obit to editor Kay Jackson, who agrees, but when Haight arrests Tabitha's fianc , Arthur's son Thad, Tabitha asks Riley to investigate. Since Arthur played around, suspects, including incensed husbands, are easy to find. Mayor Shalene Lancett and her obnoxious nephew, Toby Lancett, are eager to have Thad charged and the case closed. Riley makes lots of missteps along the rocky way to solving the crime. Fans of comic light mysteries will be rewarded. Agents: Emma Sweeney and Margaret Sutherland Brown, Emma Sweeney Agency.
