Wicked Loving Murder, by Orania Papazoglou

Retrieved from: my library
(0385199538), 1985
Suggested by: The List
My Ratings: 5 Merit, 6 Interest, 7 Fun

OK, so this one was better than the first one, which means the author is improving. This time we follow Patience as she consults with a hack magazine for aspiring authors. Her first day there, one of the managers is found strangled in a wardrobe in her office. Soon, the owner of the company meets a similar fate.

Although she is in no way implicated, and doesn't even want to help the police figure out what's going on, she finds herself drawn in. The end result is typically dramatic and somewhat unexpected. It involves shady accounting practices, the explanation of which made my eyes roll back in my head. It all seems a little far-fetched for such a tiny, disorganized and dysfunctional group to accomplish.

Having read two of the books in the series to this point, I think I can safely delete Papazoglou's name from The List. She was only on it because of her other (later) series written under the pseudonym Jane Haddam. So I will jump to that series and be content that I at least tried these.