Over Her Dead Body (Bailey Weggins Series #4)

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If Bailey Weggins's experience is typical, the Manhattan fashion magazine scene is full of pink slips, overbearing bosses, and unexpected corpses. After receiving her walking papers from Gloss, our gal Friday hooks up at Now, a celebrity gossip magazine. Bailey discovers that tensions in the editorial office there rival those of any hostile Hollywood divorce. Editor Mona Hodges runs the trendy rag with an iron fist, driving her unlucky minions to tears and distraction. Perhaps not surprisingly, mean Mona winds up dead. Solving the homicide wasn't in Weggins's job description, but how can she resist?

Publishers Weekly

Sharper than a stiletto heel, funnier than a bad dye job and full of fuchsia herrings, White's fourth Bailey Weggins murderfest (after 2004's 'Til Death Do Us Part) brings back the glitz of the Cosmo editor-in-chief's bestselling debut, If Looks Could Kill, and features yet another she-devil magazine editor. After getting the pink slip from her gig at Gloss ("kind of Cosmo for married chicks"), the sexy sleuth takes a job reporting on celebrity crime for Buzz, a gossipy magazine helmed by Mona Hodges, who wears Dolce & Gabbana, not Prada, and is notorious for her "verbal bullwhipping." When Bailey discovers Mona's body in the editor's office after hours, Bailey's friend and fellow Buzz staffer, Robby Hart, becomes a key suspect in her murder. Soon after acting editor Nash Nolan taps Bailey to do the Buzz investigative article on the crime, Bailey uncovers a zillion other suspects. White keeps the reader guessing whodunit to the end, but the book's main attraction is Bailey herself, with her musings on train-wreck journalism and the perils of falling in love in between worrying if she's next on the killer's list. Catty and bitchy at times, she's all the more appealing because she's not too much of a goody-goody. Agent, Sandra Dijkstra. (July 11) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Bailey Weggins is back and ready to tell you about her annual summer murder mystery adventure! In Over Her Dead Body, she finds herself laid off from Gloss magazine but just as quickly lands a freelance position at Buzz magazine covering celebrity crime. As she's settling in and adjusting to all of the new personalities, she discovers the badly beaten body of her editor, Mona Hodges. Because Mona was a verbally abusive tyrant, there is no shortage of suspects for the police and Bailey to investigate. As with other Bailey Weggins titles (e.g., Til Death Do Us Part and A Body To Die For), the plot is a bit fantastic but deliciously entertaining nonetheless. Actress Lea Thompson's voice suits Bailey perfectly, and her performance is engaging and moves the story along at a good pace. With the lone exception of numerous cheesy musical interludes during climactic moments, the audio production is well done. Definitely recommended and suitable for all fiction and/or mystery collections in public libraries.-Nicole A. Cooke, Montclair State Univ. Lib., NJ Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.