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    • Pub. Date: July 2005
    • 320pp

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      • Pub. Date: July 2005
      • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
      • Format: Mass Market Paperback, 320pp

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      Mystery novelist and crime reporter Paige Turner is investigating the murder of a television star whose killer is looking to improve his ratings with further deaths.

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      How to Marry a Murdererby Anonymous

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      November 11, 2007: The Paige Turner series are so much fun to read. The suspense of what the character Paige will do next keeps your nose in the book. This author cleary has a witty sense of humor.

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      September 28, 2005: Amanda Matetsky writes with constant excitement and suspense, yet with humor and candor in her new mystery novel, HOW TO MARRY A MURDERER. With the magic and nostalgia of New York City in the l950's as her canvas, we are taken on chauffer-driven rides from Greenwich Village poetry readings to the nonchalant sophistication of the Stork Club (you can see and hear the glitz) to an elegant Fifth Avenue penthouse. Ms. Matetsky touches dramatically on the embryonic time frame of live TV and the intrigue therein. We are afforded a delicious inside view of the NBC Studios at Rockefeller Plaza. These vists and trips are all embodied in the turbulence of the murder mystery story. The protagonist is Paige Turner. She is a lovely, brilliant, ambitious, and adventurous self-employed part-time crime solver, who works full-time as a crime magazine editor and staff writer. Wearing her signature red beret, Paige involves herself in frantic and dangerous pursuits across the city so that she can uncover the identity of the murderer. In so doing, she jeopardizes the sweet but tumultuous love between herself and Dan Street, the very proper New York City detective. Paige's best friend and neighbor in the Greenwich Village apartment building in which they live is the beautiful, free-spirited freelance artist, Abby. She is most adroit at giving 'artistic' advice to Paige (on all aspects of her personal and professional life), and she is influential in the way the story eventually develops. Intertwined in the novel are social issues of race and gender discrimination which are relevant to the times. This is an important component in how alive and real the characters become. I loved this very skillfully written, entertaining novel which has the necessary endowments to be made into a superb and sensational motion picture. Reading it is a real page-turning experience.


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