Dying to Get Published The Jennifer Marsh Mysteries Book 1 edition by Judy Fitzwater Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Jennifer Marsh is a mystery writer with a stack of eight unpublished manuscripts and rejection letters to match filling her closet. She's sure that if she can just get famous for something, someone will have to publish her books. Why not murder?
She'll find a target so mean that she'd actually be doing the world a favor by bumping him or her off. And she knows just the person
Penney Richmond, a high-powered literary agent who's made it her job to ruin people's lives. All Jennifer has to do is frame herself, do the deed, and come out with an iron-clad alibi, and she'll be well on her way to getting a three book deal. So what if she chickens out at the last minute? A vegetarian good girl who rescued a greyhound could never actually kill someone. But when Penney is found murdered and the police think Jennifer did it, she’d better find the real murderer before she goes away... for life.
Along with her eccentric writer's group, spunky old ladies with a nose for sleuthing, her neurotic greyhound, and a sexy, sarcastic reporter named Sam, Jennifer embarks on a journey filled with danger, deception, and disguises that could leave her Dying to Get Published...
Dying to Get Published The Jennifer Marsh Mysteries Book 1 edition by Judy Fitzwater Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
It doesn't pay to plan to murder someone to advance your career, and then chicken out. You will be at the head of the suspect list, just as aspiring writer/caterer Jennifer Marsh finds herself. What is a girl to do! Toss in an eccentric writer's group (and what writer's group is not eccentric!), a slightly crazy greyhound, and Sam, a reporter with attitude, and one comes up with a very good read!The movement is a bit slow at times, which can be irritating, and the plot a bit unstructured, but rude, hateful agents, rejection letters, and a pile of unpublished work do reflect a writer's life! This is the first in a series - I do hope that the author takes this base, tightens it up,
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Dying to Get Published The Jennifer Marsh Mysteries Book 1 edition by Judy Fitzwater Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
Jennifer Marsh really wanted to have her book published. After holding Jennifer's manuscript for a year, agent Penney Richmond told her it wouldn't sell and refused to speak with her. Jennifer decided she would kill murder someone as a research project so her story would be more realistic and she would learn how murderers thought.
Jennifer talked to the other members of her writing class to get suggestions about how to commit the murder gaining access to the victim, establishing the alibi, choosing the weapon, etc. It didn't take Jennifer long to learn that Penney had a lot of enemies so she decided that Penney would be the victim. Along the way, she learned about a news anchor who allegedly committed suicide by jumping off a roof and gets involved in finding out the truth behind his death.
Eventually she began having doubts about actually murdering Penney. "Why had she ever thought that walking through some idiotic plan would give her some secret element that would finally make her books sell? Was that all she wanted out of life?
"She wanted to be published more than almost anything in this world, but this charade was not the way to do it. She'd never know how a murderer felt. She couldn't conceive of it."
After she reached this conclusion, Penney was murdered and Jennifer was seen at the location and her alibi fell apart. Jennifer was the prime suspect. To save herself, she had to find the real murderer.
The book was witty. In one segment, while she is trying to determine how much poison she would have to use to knock out the person who was to be her alibi, she poured wine into two glasses, a blue one for him and a pink one for herself. "She'd seen too many whodunits-not to mention Danny Kay's flagon-wit-the-dragon, chalice-with-the-palace routine-where the drugged glass got switched to leave herself guessing which one had the pills. Blue was for boys; pink was for girls."
The story includes several interesting, well-developed characters as well as humorous, clever sidelines. One elderly woman, who Jennifer cultivated as part of her plot, told the police she had seen Jennifer in the building. She also served the officers tea but deliberately placed the tea bags into the cups of coffee to sabotage her reliability. Another woman referred to a Miss Georgia winner who sang and danced ballet simultaneously.
Subplots include her yet to be born child. No, she wasn't pregnant or in a relationship but very much wanted to get married and have a baby whom she had named "Jaimie." ("Jennifer had hoped to make a scrapbook for little Jaimie detailing his/her mother's success before his/her- dang this gender nonsense-birth."
DYING TO GET PUBLISHED is the first of the Jennifer Marsh mysteries. I look forward to reading her future adventures.
This book was a free download.
4 stars
This is the first book in the Jennifer Marsh series. It is actually the second I have read. So I knew who most of the characters were because I had read the seventh book first.
This is a light hearted cozy mystery. It shows how eager and desperate writers are to get their work published and noted.
Jennifer Marsh is a single writer who has 8 finished novels in her closet. She is tired of getting rejected. She gets a idea that if she commits a real murder with a alibi and lead the police right to her. Someone will want to publish her. So she starts plotting. She works part-time for a catering job.
A agent who is rude and hateful will be her target. She really does not want to murder her but figures out if she can plan it all the way then she will be able to write her mysteries.
Of course things don't fall her way. I figured out part of who the killer was and why just not the name.
I wanted Jennifer to get her book published by the end of the book. I cared about her and her friends. I could not believe she was so desperate to even think of planning a murder.
I got the ebook free from .
The author takes an old plot line and extends it beyond credibility. Her plot lacks any semblance of problem solving technique. There is no logical progression from crime to criminal. The book hardly qualifies as an organized entity. That said, I have to add, that I enjoyed it. The enjoyment rests on her handling of the heroine, an unpublished novelist, and her primary interactions in the book with the man on the scene, her novelist support group, and her newly made patron, an elderly matron.
In the end, what mattered was the congenial nature of the writing and characters; for me this overcame the fragility of the plot. Understandably, others will have quite legitimate negative responses. It is for the reader to choose what is most important.
It doesn't pay to plan to murder someone to advance your career, and then chicken out. You will be at the head of the suspect list, just as aspiring writer/caterer Jennifer Marsh finds herself. What is a girl to do! Toss in an eccentric writer's group (and what writer's group is not eccentric!), a slightly crazy greyhound, and Sam, a reporter with attitude, and one comes up with a very good read!
The movement is a bit slow at times, which can be irritating, and the plot a bit unstructured, but rude, hateful agents, rejection letters, and a pile of unpublished work do reflect a writer's life! This is the first in a series - I do hope that the author takes this base, tightens it up,
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