Dead Copy: A Cauley MacKinnon Novel by Kit Frazier

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Synopsis

Twentysomething Cauley MacKinnon is dying to escape the obituary beat and become a real reporter for the Austin Sentinel. Her best chance at a front-page scoop disappeared when she got too close to a case and almost got killed. Cauley also managed to fall for the smoking-hot FBI agent assigned to protect her.

When Special Agent Tom Logan shows up asking for a fake obituary to make a key trial witness disappear, Cauley jumps at the chance to help. After all, she's still watching his dog Tahoe although maybe its the other way around.

Caught in the crossfire on the courthouse steps, Cauley sees the murder of the man whose death she already helped fake.

Now someone is making it clear that they don't want Cauley getting any closer to the case unless she wants to wind up on the obituary page herself.

Kirkus Reviews

A sassy obit writer smart-mouths her way into trouble. Hiking up her lucky skirt, Cauley MacKinnon (Scoop, 2006, etc.) agrees to help out her boyfriend, FBI agent Tom Logan, by writing a fake obituary for Wiley Ray Puckett in order to keep him under the gangland radar until he testifies against Selena Obregon, leader of El Patron, the miscreants hassling Austin, Texas. Despite her efforts, Wiley is found and murdered, and a dead canary left in Cauley's mailbox. Through a series of improbable occurrences, the intrepid reporter and her search-and-rescue pooch Marlowe next become involved with the search for Wiley's sister Faith, who may be on the lam or may have been abducted or worse. Hiking up her skirt another notch, Cauley defies sleazy sheriff Junior Hollis, a law officer who spent his youth shooting cats, obsessing over Faith and distrusting Faith's rich half-brother, who may have had a hand in setting fire to Wiley's trailer, then Faith's, and nearly incinerating a Faith look-alike. When things slow down, Logan calls in to sizzle Cauley's nerve endings. When things heat up, he's there to save the day. Gratingly cute, with a wisecrack or metaphor in every other sentence and a good-looking guy in every chapter.

Biography

Kit Frazier (Austin, TX) is a two-time first place winner in the Writers' League of Texas and San Antonio Romance Authors Emma Merritt awards. She is the managing editor of a regional magazine and participates in search and rescue missions with the FBI and local police.