Talk About My Favorite Authors: Paige Turner Mystery Series

Well I found this series when I was visiting Barnes & Noble one day. I decided that the first two books sounded interesting enough so I bought them. I like the way Amanda Matetsky writes and I hope she continues to write more about Paige Turner who works for a Detective Writing Magazine in the 1950s. Here are the descriptions of the 4 published books so far from the back covers and pictures:

MURDERERS PREFER BLONDES $ 5.99 (Book 1)(291 Pages)

The year is 1954, and Paige Turner is a feisty young widow with Brenda Starr bravado and a fixation with following in Agatha Christie’s footsteps. Trouble is, she works like a dog at Daring Detective magazine and her lousy pun of a name has made her the butt of all office jokes. All she wants is to pen a memorable mystery, but first she needs a good story. Enter the corpse of twenty-four-year-old beauty Babs Comstock who’d had high hopes for the big screen—until she was found with a Hopalong Cassidy jump rope wrapped around her neck. Now, Paige has to find a murderer and tell the tale that could make her writing career—or cut short her life…

MURDER IS A GIRL’S BEST FRIENDS $ 6.50 (Book 2)(307 Pages)

All Paige Turner wants for Christmas is to make it through the season alive. New York City in 1954 can be bad for a girl’s health—especially if she’s a staff writer for a pulp mystery magazine who can’t help getting a little too involved in her work. Not that she’s looking for trouble this time—Detective Dan Street, her new love has forbidden her from ever making like Sam Spade again. But what’s a girl to do when her late husband’s army buddy turns up with a tale like something out of Daring Detective magazine? His sister murdered. A stash of diamonds to die for hidden in a box of oatmeal. The mystery is a Christmas present Paige can’t resist opening. But with the killer hot on her trail, Paige faces the chilling possibility that this Christmas might be her last….

HOW TO MARRY A MURDER $ 6.99 (Book 3)(308 Pages)

She’s a mystery novelist, crime magazine reporter, and girlfriend of the most talented (and handsome) detective in Manhattan—so sleuthing is second nature to Paige Turner. It’s a trade that comes in handy when chatting up a star like Ginger Allen, the most popular red-tressed TV personality since Lucille Ball. Popular to those who don’t actually know the demanding high-strung star, that is…

Ginger’s certain that one of her many enemies want her dead. There are the strange mishaps on the set, her suspicious tumble in front of a Fifth Avenue bus…not to mention the poisoned highball! Paige is betting on coincidence until she gets word that Ginger fell to her death from her penthouse balcony, headfirst onto the hood of her own limousine. Paige is convinced that this is no accident. Now it’s up to them to find Ginger’s killer before someone else gets cancelled.

MURDER ON A HOT TIN ROOF $ 6.99 (Book 4)(277 Pages)

IT’S TOO DARN HOT

Intrepid crime magazine reporter and mystery novelist Paige Turner has a taste for danger, and she’s nearly met her maker more than once in the course of her sleuthing. But a New York heat wave is more daunting than any murderous thug, so when her neighbor Abby announces she has free Broadway tickets, Paige leaps at the chance to sit in an air-conditioned theater. The show is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, with Abby’s handsome friend Gray Gordon stepping in for the lead.

Gray’s performance knocks ‘em dead, but Abby and Paige find someone’s done the same to him when they stop at his apartment the next morning. Enlisting Abby as her deputy, Paige embarks on a sweltering, madcap, and decidedly dangerous quest for the killer that has her springing all over the city like an overheated feline…