Broadcast 4 Murder (Sophie Kimball Series #7)

by J.C. Eaton

Overview

In J.C. Eaton's seventh Sophie Kimball Mystery, Sophie's kooky mother, Harriet, is gearing up to become Arizona's newest radio star as the host of the Booked 4 Murder Mystery Hour. But when she ends up broadcasting herself discovering a dead body live on air, it's up to the reluctant sleuth Sophie to find the killer...

Phee's mother Harriet is going to be a star! At least, that's how the Sun City West retiree describes her chance to host a live radio program of her book club's Booked 4 Murder Mystery Hour on Arizona's KSCW. But instead of chatting about charming cozies, Harriet ends up screaming bloody murder over the airwaves after discovering the body of Howard Buell, the station's programming director, in a closet—with a pair of sewing shears shoved into his chest.

The number one suspect is Howard's ex-girlfriend Sylvia Strattlemeyer who believed she was going to host a sewing talk show before Harriet was offered the spot. But not only do the fingerprints found on the scissors not match Sylvia's, they belong to a woman who passed away twenty years ago at the age of ninety-seven. Now, with the whole town on pins and needles, it's up to Phee to stitch together enough clues from the past to uncover the identity of a killer in the present...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496724564
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	10/27/2020
Series:	Sophie Kimball Series , #7
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	107,743
Product dimensions:	4.70(w) x 6.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

J.C. Eaton is the wife and husband team of Ann I. Goldfarb and James E. Clapp, authors of the Sophie Kimball Mystery Series and the Wine Trail Mysteries. A New York native and former middle school principal, Ann has published eight award-winning and highly acclaimed YA time travel mysteries. James is a U.S. Navy veteran and retired tasting room manager for a large upscale New York winery. Visit their Website at JCEatonMysteries.com.

Editorial Reviews

2020-07-29
A neurotic Chiweenie displays real detective skills.

Sophie "Phee" Kimball is a bookkeeper at a detective agency run by her boyfriend, Marshall Gregory, and Nate Williams, old friends from Minnesota who’ve moved to the Phoenix area, where Phee’s mother, Harriet, and her mystery-loving friends in Sun City West have involved her in many a mystery. The agency is currently investigating a perplexing case of inventory stolen from Home Products Plus that may draw on Phee’s accounting skills. When a sewing-show host takes time off from Sun City West’s local radio station, Harriet and her pal Myrna Mittleson are thrilled by the chance to do a live talk show. The highlight of their first program on mystery novels turns out to be their on-air description of finding the bloody corpse of program director Howard Buell, stabbed to death with a pair of fancy scissors. Nate and Marshall, who are often called in as consultants by the short-staffed local police, soon join Phee and Harriet’s gossipy network of friends on the case. A second murder suggests that the motive is either love or money. At length Phee realizes that the pop-up garage sales selling the stolen goods may be connected to the murders. In the end, though, it’s Streetman, Harriet’s Chiweenie, who helps solve the crimes.

Fans who like their mysteries with a healthy dose of humor will enjoy Eaton’s latest comedy of errors.

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