Crime Writer

<p><strong>****</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(55 59 77 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Shortlisted for the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense the 2022 Davitt Award for Best Crime Books by Australian Women and the People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award.</strong></p><p><strong>****</strong></p><p><strong>Dime Sheppard delivers a smart and witty caper about a crime novelist who recruits her main characters to investigate her maybe-unfaithful fiancé.</strong></p><p>Evie Howland has problems.</p><p>Guns. Bombs. Murderers.</p><p>And that's just on the page...</p><p>In real life she's meant to be planning a wedding to adorable billionaire Daniel Bradley but Evie is seriously snarled in the sixteenth book of her successful crime series. In fact her protagonists are becoming almost impossible to wrangle: NYPD detective Carolyn Harding is volatile after a messy divorce and Detective Jay Ryan has that heated look in his blue eyes again. They're both sick of being written. And frankly they're getting a little...physical. Evie is beginning to wonder if she's ever going to finish Book Sixteen and get them back into fiction where they belong.</p><p>But when a disturbingly familiar homicide surfaces in the city papers it seems as if other darker characters might have crossed the fiction-frontier too. In which case Evie is in a lot of real-life trouble.</p><p>If she's going to survive it Evie must face her own worst fears and learn that real love can be the best way of writing her own story.</p><p>But can she change the ending?</p><p><strong>Full of high-octane adventure and dry humour this novel is perfect for fans of Janet Evanovich's action-packed Stephanie Plum novels or Mary Stewart's stylish romantic suspense.</strong></p>