Murder, She Edited

 In this blog post, I reviewed  Kaitlyn Dunnett's Murder, She Edited, the 4th installment in the Deadly Edits cozy mystery series. This newest caper leaves you hooked and enthralled with one juicy tale. Michelle Lincoln is a 70-year-old freelance editor and beta reader to a famous historical romance writer. It all started for her when she received a phone call from a lawyer saying she inherited a farm from one of her mother's closest friends Tessa Swarthout in her will upon her death. And that it had a very special request: to find them and edit the journals before publication. This send her on a wild goose chase while she looked for the diaries and read the disturbing details on how Tessa's stepmother Rosanna had died 50 years ago. While she worked on her library's newsletter, she dealt with a stalking number one fan of Illyana Dubonnet who requested to speak to herself and filed an editorial complaint, and the runaround from Leland Fairweather's law firm to get answers. As she tried to dodged this fan, she unearthed new clues when she found one diary and dug deeper. The closer she'd gotten closer to the truth, her life became endangered when she had a deadline to fulfill before time ran out of her on who really committed the crime way back when.

 This cozy mystery was so captivating and interesting to read. I cared about Micki and her adorable cat Calpurnia, who ended up in a half-a-century-year old unsolved murder. For a widow who had plenty of time on her hands, this kept her busy from start to finish. I liked the Lenape Hollow, New York location and all of the vast background for that small NYC city. The theme of the story is that your past will catch up to you and leave you with a heavy guilty conscience to tell the truth.

 If you like compelling cozies that keeps you guessing with non-stop action, lots of drama, plenty of suspense, and sparks of heart-stopping intrigue, Murder, She Edited is the book for you.