Chris Martin's personal life may be looking up now that her two-timing husband has moved out - and her lover has moved in.But her life as a reporter on the local rag is in the doldrums, with a lost cat the high spot of her day. Until she lands an interview with Rick Monday, a local boy who found fame as a rock star in the seventies.Though the interview is a major disappointment, the follow-up is dynamite. Monday is found with an ornamental dagger in his chest and Chris was one of the last people to see him alive. Determined not to let the biggest story of her career get away, Chris defies her editor and the police by conducting her own investigation into the murder. She pursues the trail as it leads her through the seedy world of rock music and into a web of family lies and secrets. But the price for this big story could be her life.Praise for Annette Roome...“A terrific debut for a wholly sympathetic, wryly witty sleuthess” THE TIMES“Narrated with splendid comic disenchantment...this is an exhilarating debut” THE SUNDAY TIMES"...has all the ingredients a good crime novel should — credible inter-weaving plots, pace, tension, wit, lively characters and dialogue.” SIMON BRETT“Whoops of delight for a clever and refreshing newcomer.” THE OBSERVERAnnette Roome won the Crime Writers Association John Creasey Award for the Best First Crime Novel with A Real Shot In The Arm, the first book in the bestselling Chris Martin mysteries.
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