Missing Persons (Kate Conway Series #1)

by Clare O'Donohue

Overview

The debut of an exciting new mystery series featuring a cynical, crafty television producer turned amateur sleuth.

The cause of death is "undetermined," but the cops peg Chicago television producer Kate Conway as the main suspect when her soon-to-be ex-husband, Frank, is found dead. To make matters worse-and weirder- Frank's new girlfriend suddenly wants to be friends.

Happy for the distraction, Kate throws herself into a new work assignment for the television program Missing Persons: the story of Theresa Moretti, a seemingly angelic young woman who disappeared a year earlier. All Kate wants is a cliché story and twenty-two minutes of footage, but when the two cases appear to overlap, Kate needs to work fast before another body turns up-her own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101528730
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/31/2011
Series:	A Kate Conway Mystery , #1
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	306 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

CLARE O’DONOHUE is a freelance television writer/producer. She produced television’s most popular quilting show, Simply Quilts, on HGTV, and she is currently producing and writing for a variety of television crime shows, including Forensic Files. This is her first novel.

Editorial Reviews

With an insider’s knowledge of how TV crime shows are put together, Clare O’Donohue has created a smart, delightful new detective in producer Kate Conway.”—Cammie McGovern, author of Eye Contact
 
“Kate Conway demands your attention. I dare you to put this down.”—Libby Fischer Hellmann, author of the Ellie Foreman and Georgia Davis series
 
“A smart and cynical sleuth.”—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

A Chicago TV producer considers herself a cynic until her new project draws her into a heartbreaking investigation.

Kate Conway's assignment for a new show,Missing Persons, starts with the case of Theresa Moretti, a young nurse who's been AWOL for a year. Kate's life is a bit of a disaster since she split with her husband Frank, a talented but feckless charmer she met in high school. When he suddenly dies, Kate becomes the chief murder suspect when the police learn that she's due to receive a big life-insurance settlement and an autopsy shows an overdose of digitalis. Kate likes Frank's girlfriend Vera, an apparently nice person from a very wealthy family whom Kate meets at the hospital the night of Frank's death. But Frank's parents want Kate to find out if Vera murdered him, and Frank's best friend complicates the situation further by telling Kate that Frank had been hoping for reconciliation with her. In the meantime, Kate finds herself more involved in the case of the missing girl, who was not nearly as angelic as her mother claimed. When Theresa's body is found, Kate has a plethora of suspects, including Theresa's volatile brother, various boyfriends and a wealthy lawyer who seems suspiciously eager to help. Kate's finely honed interviewing skills will be necessary to find a killer and clear herself in Frank's death.

This series kickoff from O'Donohue (The Double Cross, 2010, etc.) introduces a smart and cynical sleuth. The killer is guessable, but the ending provides some welcome surprises.

Kirkus Reviews