Dead File (Maxi Poole Mysteries)
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ISBN: 089296751X / Publisher: Mysterious Press, July 2003
Covering the murder of one of the world's largest vitamin and herb retailers, reporter Maxi Poole is enlisted by the victim's husband, who is also being targeted, and finds herself interested in the man despite his philandering activities.
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Maxi is passing time during an unusual lull in the newsroom when the hottest story to hit town in months starts flashing across her computer screen. Within seconds, she and her film crew are hurtling down the Hollywood Freeway toward downtown L.A., where businesswoman Gillian Rose lies dead in the fabulous glass-and-steel high-rise that's home to her billion-dollar dietary supplements empire.Armed with plenty of attitude - and the elevator code to the penthouse - Maxi gets an early peek at the still-warm corpse. Gillian looks beautiful even in death, except there's something strange about her that makes Maxi pause. Then she gets it: Gillian's famously cerulean blue eyes are brown.With her instincts immediately on red alert, Maxi is soon chasing down enough suspects to fill a Rolodex. From Gillian's sleazy, roving husband to his gorgeous, man-eating mistress, to a shady entrepreneur on the trail of a revolutionary new drug, the sleuth finds herself caught in a risky business that could shake up Tinseltown like a killer dose of poisoned herbal cocktail. And Maxi intends to be there to capture it all on tape.That is, if she isn't dumped from prime time by someone who intends to delete her from existence and consign her to every reporter's worst nightmare: the dead file.
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