Dying for a Clue

by Judy Fitzwater

Book Overview

Jennifer Marsh thinks getting some real investigative experience will be good for her writing -- and helping private eye Johnny Zeeman track down the birth parents of adopted teenager Diane Robbins... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449004260
• ISBN13: 9780449004265
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Fawcett
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.9" x 0.7" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Hang in there, Jennifer!

My favorite of the Jennifer Marsh series (up to Dying to Get Her Man, and hoping for more...)The plot will remind you of Mary Higgins Clark's books here, but the style is purely Fitzwater. Johnny Z is a fun character, and between him and the writers' group, you'll keep grinning. And of course you will keep routing for Jennifer... to get the bad guy AND to get published! A definite must to bring along next time you have to sit in the doctor's waiting room.

Great!

This is a great mystery book! Not her best, but it's definetly worth reading. And great for all ages! Easy to follow, no brain-busting words where you have to go for find that old dusty dictionary, just simple, suspenseful reading for everyone!

Judy and Jennifer are back!

If you enjoyed the first Jennifer Marsh mystery, you'll feel right at home reading the second one. Judy Fitzwater doesn't miss a beat as she throws us back into Jennifer's world, and into another murder mystery (this time one our hero -didn't- go looking for!). All the characters we know and love from Dying to Get Published are back in the second book of the series, and as lovable as ever. Again Fitzwater's wit and amazing knack for putting her finger on the idiosyncracies of a situation (you know, those things that make you go hmmmm) make this a great read. If you're looking for something lighthearted and fun, don't miss Jennifer Marsh and the Macon crew as they tumble through their latest mystery!

Another goodie from Judy

In Judy Fitzwater's third Jennifer Marsh installment we get more of the same wackiness that readers have come to expect from her first two books.This time Jennifer is working with P.I. Johnny Z. (a Bogart wanna-be) who gets Jennifer caught in the middle of yet another murder that to make matters worse forces her to move-in with her (sort-of) boyfriend Sam and baby-sit her client.While the plot is somewhat predictable the characters make it all worthwhile. I think I read these simply to find out if Jennifer will ever actually admit to loving Sam and whether she will ever have Jaimie (her unborn and not yet conceived child). Judy has great character development from the first thru the third book and as always, I love listening in on her writers group discuss their plots (the newest being A children's mystery featuring a Squirrel, entitled "Where have all the nuts gone?" or something as witty as that).These books are a great vacation from the hard boiled and psychologically intense mysteries - and are just a whole lot of fu

A humerous and entertaining mystery

In Macon, crime writer Jennifer Marsh signs on as an assistant to sleazy private investigator Johnny "Z "Zeemon to gain first hand knowledge of sleuthing. The two detectives hide in an alley near the East Lake Fertility Clinic waiting for two delivery people to leave. Instead, all hell breaks loose. Z is shot and a frightened Jennifer dives into nearby garbage dumpster filled with trash from a Chinese restaurant. When Jennifer exits her safe spot, she finds a nurse has been murdered.While Z heals in a hospital, his client Lanier College student Diane Robbins visits Jennifer, seeking the parcel that was to be collected that fatal night. Apparently, Diane recognized the clinic and learned from her mother that she is adopted. The dead nurse was secretly going to provide information that would inform Diane who her biological mother truly is. As Jennifer works with Z to uncover the truth, danger mounts from an unknown source that has already hired professionals to keep certain secrets buried.The third Marsh mystery is a humorous entertaining who-done-it that stars a wisecracking (at least in her head) heroine. DYING FOR A CLUE contains an enjoyable story line that hooks readers from start to finish. Like the first two "Dying novels (DYING TO GET PUBLISHED and DYING TO GET EVEN), the characters make the tale. Besides the wonderful Jennifer, her writing support group, the client, Sam, and Z turn this into a novel readers will be dying to read.Harriet Klausner