The naked female body discovered in the library parking lot by reading tutor Annie March and her student Philly Tripp is beautiful and perfect in every way—except for the ugly bullet hole in her chest. And when the murdered young woman turns out to be the half-sister of one of Annie's old high school boyfriends, the attractive 43-year-old freelance writer and literacy volunteer becomes a prime suspect in the case. In a frantic effort to prove her innocence (and increase her involvement with Sergeant Eddie Lincoln, the handsome homicide detective in charge), Annie sets out to find the killer herself. And Philly—a semi-literate 34-year-old African-American nurse's aide with bleach-blonde hair and a taste for neon-colored clothes—sets out to protect her dear friend and tutor. The two soon find themselves swept up in a frightening, funny, sexy, and dangerous whirl of events that could wind up being the time of their lives—or the untimely end of them.
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.
