Kill Smartie Breedlove

by Joni Rodgers

Overview

“Smart, sassy, and hugely entertaining.”—Reviews by Leila

Recently widowed Shep Hartigate is a dishonored cop reduced to chasing cheating spouses for a ruthless Houston divorce lawyer. Free-spirited Smartie Breedlove is a pulp fiction writer on a mission to find out who's killing the inconvenient exes of Texas, including her BFF, Charma, a notorious centerfold with a heart of gold. Problematic lovers, long-suffering family, and stalwart friends (two-and four-legged) chime in, along with Smartie’s characters, who keep jumping the turnstile between fiction and reality.

Plenty of publishing industry shade is thrown in this deliciously quirky whodunit full of hard-boiled plot twists and insider homages to Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Daphne du Maurier. As Smartie and Shep maneuver to stay alive, every clue leads to another question. Does Shep’s gorgeous but unscrupulous employer really have a secret bimbo/mimbo hit list? Or is Smartie Breedlove lost in the dime novel that constantly unspools
inside her head?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165827341
Publisher:	Joni Rodgers
Publication date:	03/31/2022
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	701 KB

About the Author

NYT bestselling author Joni Rodgers grew up performing in a family bluegrass band and spent her early career doing plays, music, and voiceovers. Her voice was featured on over 3,000 radio and TV commercials and special programs, many of which she also wrote and produced. Diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age thirty-two, Joni used the chemo downtime to finish her first two novels, Crazy for Trying (MacAdam-Cage 1997) and Sugarland (Bertelsmann 1999), both of which were published to critical acclaim. Bald in the Land of Big Hair (HarperCollins 2001), Joni’s memoir about surviving cancer as a young mom, was an international bestseller and perennial book club favorite. Celebrities and other extraordinary people began asking her to help them tell their stories. As a ghostwriter and story consultant, Joni specializes in high-end memoirs but has collaborated on a wide range of projects including a long string of fiction and nonfiction bestsellers and an Oscar-nominated screenplay. She lives on the Pacific Coast with her husband, multimedia artist Gary Rodgers.