Dead Copy

Terrific!

Wonderful follow-up to Scoop. I love the characters ... would love to see another one to follow this. There were a couple of references to Logan's previous partner. I'd like to see something about that ...and of course, I'd love to see what happens with the terrorist attack cat.

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Twentyish Cauley ¿The Obituary Babe¿ MacKinnon wants to make it as a highly respected reporter. She feels being an obit writer is stuck in the muddy ooze underneath the lowest rung of the journalistic food chain ladder. When her sometimes boyfriend FBI hunk, that is agent Tom Logan, asks her for a favor besides sharing the sheets, she agrees to help him on a witness protection case as long as he provides her with the SCOOP. He wants her to write and print a fake obituary for Wiley Ray Puckett Tom wants to keep him safe until he testifies against the El Patron gang leader Selena Obregon. However, Wiley is murdered anyway and a dead canary left by Cauley as a warning to back off or her obit will be next. With her faithful companion at her side 'that is Marlowe the dog not Tom the rat who told her to back off' Cauley, being a typical sweetened tea Texan searches for Wiley¿s missing sister Faith. --- Though the coincidence meter is way beyond the top metric of plausibility 'then again this is in the Austin area', chick lit investigative readers will enjoy Cauley¿s latest escapades to obtain a scoop so she can escape the dead letter office hopefully without her own obit written. The zany story line is fun to read if the audience ignores the doses of luck 'more than the sugar her mom puts in the tea' that leads Cauley one heel at a time on her inquiry. Tom is always there at the right moment whether that is for some kissing or for some rescuing, sub-genre fans will laugh with the antics of the heroine of this lighthearted mystery. --- Harriet Klausner

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Good Read

I've read Dead Copy and its predecessor Scoop. I enjoyed both books. They were easy reads, with an intriquing sleuth story and with a somewhat humorous tone. I am looking forward to the 3rd installment.

Wonderful characters, but...

I liked this book and esp. the characters, but what is with all the run-on sentences?? I got frustrated because of this, but liked the plot and characters so much I tried to let it go. I don't know whether to blame the author or whoever should be proof-reading for grammar errors! I have noticed grammar errors in some other noon books, so I am hoping it isn't this author.

Great story, but...

Dead Copy was a great story, and that was all that kept me reading. Despite the numerous nicely turned phrases that peppered the chapters, Frazier desperately--desperately!--needs a copy editor. I was distracted by the run-on sentences and other mistakes. Only the fact that I liked the characters and the story kept me going. I'd love to read more about Cauley, but I'm not sure I can get past the mistakes in another volume.

Love this book

I'm excited to have found this writer - funny, sexy, interesting, fast to read.

Enjoyable

If you liked Scoop, then you will like Dead Copy. However, if you have not read Scoop, please do so first. I enjoyed the story, and now wish I was a dog person so I could have a dog like Marlowe. As others mentioned, I would enjoy seeing the relationship between Cauley and Tom progress. There is also a future between Faith and Ethan, I hope! And Mia deserves some romance of her own. :)

The conversion to ebook is a little rough. Lots of missing punctuation, so sometimes you have to read a sentence two or three times to really understand what the author meant. In general, there were lots of those types of issues. Paragraph split in half, occaisionally not sure when dialogue has ended due to missing quotation marks, lots of missing comma's... But once you got used to that, it was enjoyable.

E-BOOK?

WHY IS THIS NOT ON E-BOOK?

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check it out

Why isn't this a ebook. Would love to buy it.

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