Over Her Dead Body

by Kate White

Book Overview

New York Times bestselling author and former Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Kate White knows firsthand that the magazine business is murder. The smart and gutsy crime writer Bailey Weggins returns for a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446531766
• ISBN13: 9780446531764
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Got me wanting More!!!

I finished this book late last night. I couldn't put it down because she kept you guess through out the book. I really enjoyed the mystry and Romance this book brought with it.Every day I had to go back to the book to find out what happened next...Good read ENJOY!!!

I LOVE THESE BOOKS!

Kate White is an excellent author. I have read all four of her "Bailey Weggins" mysteries and highly rate them for a fun, suspenseful read with some romance to boot! She is one of the only authors whose books I will buy as soon as they are published, hardbacks and all! *Bonnie Elliott* www.youravon.com/belliott

Exciting

From the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine comes a deliciously gossipy story of the cutthroat world of gossip magazines. Bailet Weggins is a freelance crime journalist who switches from Gloss magazine when the editor wants to shift the focus of the magazine. Bailey lands a job at Buzz magazine with a notoriously difficult editor- Mona Hodges. Six weeks into the gig, during a party at another magazine in the building, Mona is killed- brutally hit over the head, and barely alive when Bailey finds her. The only witness is a Russian cleaning woman. From there on, out, everyone in the office is a suspect, as it seems that everyone had a reason for wanting to kill Mona. There's a hot singer who has a major secret- could it have been the singer's handler? Was it the owner of Buzz magazine, who, upon learning that Mona was considering a job offer elsewhere, killed her? Bailey becomes embroiled in the investigation when she is asked to write about the murder. A staff writer named Ryan is asked to write a profile about Mona- her life, work, etc. The competition gets fierce when Ryan thinks hes discovered a huge new lead- which ends in tragic circumstances. True to murder mystery form, Bailey finds her life "on the line" when she is attacked on a deserted street, and then locked in a sauna room at a Buzz staff picnic. A friend tells her at one point in the story about a optical confusion he once witnessed- and a similar kind of optical confusion occurs in this case. Things aren't what they seem at first. No chick lit book can be complete without the love interest. Still getting over her divorce, Bailey is only looking for a summer fling. She finds it in Beau Regan, a television producer. Will she find love? One of the reasons why I liked this book so much was because of the love interest. Beau Regan probably isn't the type of guy most women would date in real life, but the way their romance plays out is very realistic.

A bully bites the dust.

Kate White's deliciously titillating new novel, "Over Her Dead Body," is about the murder of Mona Hodges, the dictatorial editor of "Buzz," a weekly celebrity gossip magazine. White's heroine, Bailey Weggins, has just joined the "Buzz" staff. Since her beat is celebrity crime, Bailey is assigned to cover this sensational story. Not content merely to report the facts, she decides to do some sleuthing on her own. Much to her chagrin, Bailey finds that the list of people who might have killed Mona could easily fill a small telephone book. Mona insulted almost everyone she knew, and many individuals would have profited from her death. White is the editor in chief of "Cosmopolitan," and her insider's take on the celebrity gossip business is hilariously satirical. She depicts "Buzz" as a trashy publication whose writers cover such stories as the shocking secrets of the rich and famous, freaky beauty rituals, and the "binges, breakups, and botched plastic surgeries of the stars." The "Buzz" office is a very nasty place to work. It is filled with backstabbing employees who are eager to get ahead, even at one another's expense. Who hated Mona Hodges? One of the victim's many enemies is a portly singer named Kimberly Chance, whom Mona dubbed "Fat Chance" in the pages of her magazine. Bailey's friend, Robby Hart, is also a prime suspect, since Mona unceremoniously fired him shortly before she was killed. Other people who may have resented Mona are a publicist named Kiki Bodden, Tom Dicker, the pompous owner of "Buzz," and Nash Nolan, the magazine's ambitious number two man. The possibilities are dizzying. When Bailey persists in her quest to find Mona's killer, she herself becomes a target for death. White captures the breezy vernacular of the hip urban professional in her cute, but not cutesy, dialogue, and her characters are both varied and well-drawn. Bailey is savvy and sophisticated; yet, she displays a touching sweetness and vulnerability when an appealing new man named Beau Regan comes into her life. "Over Her Dead Body" is suspenseful, engrossing, and well-crafted, and I liked White's restrained and fairly realistic ending. Kate White tells it like it is; she describes the lurid world of gossip magazines with humor, style, and flair, and this mystery is an amusing and entertaining romp.

entertaining journalistic investigative tale

In a Greenwich Village café, Gloss magazine editor Cat Jones informs her human interest-crimes contributor Bailey Weggins that they no longer want her services as the publication is going to concentrate on bliss not buzz. Desperate, Bailey asks her friend Robby Hart, senior editor at Buzz magazine, if he has any leads for a job. To her amazement he hires hire to provide articles on celebrity crime. Bailey is taken aback at Buzz when she first encounters the big boss Mona Hodges, who yells, curses and demeans her staff before eating her chicken salad sandwich and then goes back to yell, curse and demean her staff again. Not long after Bailey starts, Mona stunningly fires Robby. Soon after that, Bailey finds Mona's battered corpse late at night in the office. The police suspect Robby killed Mona in a fit of unemployment rage. Bailey knows her friend could not harm anyone, so using her journalistic investigative skills; she begins her own inquiries into who killed the she devil boss. OVER HER DEAD BODY is an entertaining journalistic investigative tale starring a likable heroine (see 'TIL DEATH DO US PART, A BODY TO DIE FOR and IF LOOKS COULD KILL). The story line is fast-paced at first in a breezy manner but quickly turns into a dangerous sleuthing endeavor for the intrepid reporter. Mona is a stereotype of the "queen of mean" so that everyone within her circle of ugliness wants her dead. Thus Bailey efforts to prove someone other than Robby committed homicide seems overwhelming for her, but not for series fans who will enjoy Kate White's latest tale refreshed by a new magazine cover. Harriet Klausner