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Title details for Over Her Dead Body by Kate White - Available

Over Her Dead Body

#4 in series

by Kate White
Lea Thompson
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Talk about rapid turnover-in a matter of days Bailey Weggins gets axed from one New York magazine and hired by another. Her new job at Buzz, a weekly filled with sizzling gossip, has Bailey covering celebrity crime, including the starlet who got caught stuffing Fendi purses down her pants and the aging hunk who shot his lover with a Magnum.

And Bailey doesn't have to look far for her next story: she finds her boss, Mona Hodges, gasping her last breath after being bludgeoned with a blunt object. A raging tyrant, Mona made Buzz a top 'zine but racked up an impressive enemy list along the way. Now, with her strappy sandals in one hand and her cell phone in the other, Bailey's out hunting for clues everywhere. In just about a New York minute she's got a crush on a sexy filmmaker-and some scary insight into her boss's murder. The first can give her the hot summer fling she's itching to have. The second can get her killed...

  • Creators

  • Series

    Bailey Weggins Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 11, 2005

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781594832444
      • File size: 171191 KB
      • Duration: 05:56:38

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      COSMOPOLITAN Editor-in-Chief Kate White brings her sophisticated crime writer, Bailey Weggins, back in this witty, casual, and oh-so-sophisticated murder mystery set against the glossy pages of a New York celebrity tabloid. Read by actress Lea Thompson in a breezy manner, this audio presentation is as exciting as its odd cast of characters, the passionate crime that takes place, and the unusual investigation Bailey Weggins uncovers. While there are more than a few false leads and clearly not enough of Bailey's hot summer fling with the gorgeous Bo, OVER HER DEAD BODY is an audio treat. M.R.E. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from May 30, 2005
      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.

    • Library Journal

      January 15, 2006
      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 2006 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Since her beat is celebrity crime, Bailey Weggins is assigned to cover the sensational murder of Mona Hodges, the dictatorial editor of BUZZ, whose list of personal enemies and those who would profit from her death could stretch from one end of Manhattan to the other. Julia Gibson's girlish voice projects more sweetness and vulnerability into her narration than one might expect from a savvy and sophisticated urban crime writer. Her delivery does not differentiate characters, and her vocal sound effects are inadequate. For example, a "tisk-tisk" vocalization comes across as a weak attempt to capture the sound of leather scuffing on pavement as someone runs away. K.A.T. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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