Description:
2nd in the Detective Insp. St. Just series, Cambridgeshire, England

Mystery Lovers Review:
I thoroughly enjoyed Death of a Cozy Writer, G.M. Malliet’s first St. Just mystery. Fortunately, my enjoyment was renewed when I read her second series mystery, cleverly entitled Death and the Lit Chick. As the titles suggest, these books penetrate the cutthroat world of writing—more specifically, the insular world of mystery writing. In Death and the Lit Chick, Kimberlee Kalder, a widely popular mystery writer, meets with an untimely demise, and British Detective Chief inspector St. Just, along with his assistant, Portia, investigate the congeries of mystery writers who had reason to permanently remove Kimberlee from the mystery scene. This book is particularly enjoyable because Malliet pokes fun at mystery writers—of which she is one, obviously—and their machinations in real life and in fiction. Malliet has selected a cogent niche for her books. I hope that this “lit chick” thrives for a very long time. [LM]