Murder is a Girl's Best Friend (Paige Turner Mystery) [Paperback]

Amanda Matetsky (Author)

Book Description

Series: Paige Turner Mystery | Publication Date: July 6, 2004

Spunky 1950s detective Paige Turner finds herself embroiled in a messy murder mystery with the killer hot on her heels. She'll need all her skills to track him down--before she becomes his next victim.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Berkley (July 6, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425197166
• ISBN-13: 978-0425197165
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #743,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Amanda Matetsky was an editor of entertainment magazines and a volunteer literacy tutor before becoming a fiction writer. Her popular Paige Turner mysteries (Murderers Prefer Blondes, Murder Is a Girl's Best Friend, How to Marry a Murderer, Murder on a Hot Tin Roof, and Dial Me for Murder) are set in Manhattan in the 1950s and feature a young Korean War widow who is struggling to support herself by writing true crime stories for Daring Detective magazine. Amanda's first Annie March novel, The Perfect Body, won the NJRW Golden Leaf Award for Best First Book, and is now available in a slick new trade paperback edition. The next Annie March mystery, The Serial Lover, will be released soon. Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, Harry, and their two cats, Homer and Phoebe, in a house full of laughter and love and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. You can visit the author online at www.amandamatetsky.com.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Mystery Series On the Market, September 16, 2004

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Erika Sorocco (Southern California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Murder is a Girl's Best Friend (Paige Turner Mystery) (Paperback)

Twenty-eight-year-old Paige Turner just wants to make it through the Christmas season alive. After all, with all of the crime on the streets in New York City, and the hustle and bustle of Christmas shoppers, the holidays can really take a toll on your health. Especially if it's the year 1954, and you're a woman working at a pulp mystery magazine known as DARING DETECTIVE, and all you want is for your Detective boyfriend, Dan Street, to be supportive of your chosen career. But suddenly the Christmas holidays take a turn for the worst, when an old army buddy, known as Terry, of Paige's now-deceased husband shows up, asking for her help in solving the crime of his little sister's murder. Terry knows that his sister wasn't the victim of a simple robbery, she was murdered, and he knows why, for he found a stash of diamonds hidden in a box of oatmeal. Obviously it's exactly what the murderer was looking for. Now the killer is watching Paige's every move, waiting for the perfect time to strike.

Amanda Matetsky has created on of the most interesting, and intriguing mystery characters ever. Paige is an enjoyable new character, whose crazy quirks will have all readers laughing out loud, while at the same time itching to find out who the killer is. Paige's fantastic friends, and snoopy personality will keep the pages of this book turning until the very end. A must-read mystery, even for those who don't normally read books from the mystery genre.

Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Mystery Book, August 20, 2004

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This review is from: Murder is a Girl's Best Friend (Paige Turner Mystery) (Paperback)

Paige Turner is a spit fire young woman living in the 50's and working as a writer for a detective magazine. She gets a lot of grief about her name, especially where she works. She works with all men who expect her to wait on them and do most of the work while they laugh and slack off. The thoughts she thinks about them inside her head are funny! She gets caught up in a murder mystery and goes out to try to solve it herself and you can't put the book down! There's swearing which was disappointing. Otherwise, great book!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Most Delightful Mystery Series!, August 21, 2004

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K. A. Stevenson "WIAPilot" (Tucson) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Murder is a Girl's Best Friend (Paige Turner Mystery) (Paperback)

I was actually reading another novel when the second book in the "Paige Turner Mystery Series" arrived from Amazon. I soon just gave up trying to get involved in the other book as "Murder Is a Girl's Best Friend" beckoned me.

The saga continues when her late husband's army buddy appears and asks her to help him investigate his kid sister's murder. A lot of thoughts come to the surface for Paige as she was deeply in love with her husband when he was killed in the Korean War. Yes - they were only married for 3 months, but Paige was devastated. Amanda Matetsky very ACCURATELY depicts Paige as a woman of the 50's. Paige doesn't NEED a man; rather she is portrayed as a loving, caring woman. Actually, Paige is quite a lot more independent than most women of the 1950's, most whose identities were very closely formed to the men in their lives.

Matetsky also very accurately has researched the jargon and headlines of the detective magazines of that period, who were a little more "scandalous" in their use of words such as "rape" than most of the newspapers of that period.

This series transports the reader back to New York in the 1950's in a charming manner, that is not ridiculous or silly in the least. Paige Turner is a character that you will LIKE. Abby is great as the uninhibited close friend and neighbor as well.
I really look forward to the next Paige Turner mystery!