Dying to Get Even

by Judy Fitzwater

Book Overview

ASPIRING MYSTERY NOVELIST JENNIFER MARSH IS BACK-- WITH A TASTE FOR DETECTING! Edgar's Down Home Grill is flourishing, but the reprehensible owner, Edgar Walker, is finito. Jennifer Marsh finds his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449003868
• ISBN13: 9780449003862
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Fawcett
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 0.8" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Series!

I am reading Judy Fitzwater's Jennifer Marsh mysteries series and I am enjoying them immensely. Down-to-earth, friendly and funny, I feel as if Jennifer is an old friend. This was the third book of the series I've read (I went out-of-order). These books are a PLEASURE to read. The kind of books you read just for the fun of it. I'm looking forward to 'Dying for a Clue.'I hope I see Jennifer get published SOON and I hope she and Sam do something wild and nasty. Until then, keep 'em coming, Judy.

A great follow-up

Judy Fitzwater's second Jennifer Marsh book hits a home run. The writing is as solid as her first book and she has added more depth to the characters - including Jennifer, her boyfriend (sort-of) Sam, Jaimie (her unborn and not yet conceived child) even her dog Muffy.Once again, Judy creates a wonderfully woven, light hearted mystery - full of angst and who-dunnit's. These characters just grow on you - I swear!Once again, we also get to enjoy the half baked plots and character's that Jennifer's writers group discusses at their weekly meetings. This time Jennifer gets woken up in the middle of the night to go "rescue" her eldery friend Emma Walker who is at her ex-husband's house playing pranks but has not returned home when she is supposed to. Jennifer arrives to find Emma's ex face down in the pool and Emma unconscious and holding the murder weapon - to make matters worse the current wife arrives with a gun and the police! Now Jennifer is their (unwilling) star witness - what can she do but go undercover to ferret out the truth.This series is a fun one. Just kick back, relax and enjoy.

The total package. In some ways better than the first.

Judy Fitzwater strikes again. Another witty, charming mystery involving Jennifer Marsh and her associates. I love the premise: Jennifer's sweet, elderly friend, Emmie Walker, is found at the scene of her ex-husband's murder by Jennifer. Now Jen is the star witness in a case against her friend. She's sure that Mrs. Walker couldn't have committed murder, so Jennifer sets to find out who really did it, before Mrs. Walker goes to jail.The characters remain consistent with the first book, but here they are able to grow and develop even more. I love all of them, especially Sam, the charming almost bad-boy reporter that Jennifer sort-of dates.Another solid mystery. I can't wait for the next one, Dying for a Clue. I think it'll be out this fall.

A great follow-up

Macon Mystery writer Jennifer Marsh desperately wants to be published, which is why she enjoys investigating homicides that seem open and shut. Her latest real life sleuthing involves her good friend, elderly Emmie Walker, former spouse of Edgar, the owner of the Down Home Grill restaurant chain.When she arrives at Emma's Atlanta home, Jen notices two bodies floating in the swimming pool. Edgar lies dead while Emmie is unconscious, holding a bloodied knife. Forensics proves that the knife is the murder weapon used to kill the man. The Office of the Fulton County District Attorney believes that Emmie murdered her former husband. Jen disagrees and begins to do some sleuthing with the help of her boy friend and her critique group.Judy Fitzwater has written another fresh and humorous who-done-it, starring an amateur sleuth that is the epitome of the insecure aspiring mystery writer. The secondary characters are candid and in your face, adding color and red herrings to a strong story line. DYING TO GET EVEN is the second novel in what appears to be the beginning stages of a long running series.Harriet Klausner