Dead Beat

"During those two terrifying months, I was glad I had quit piano lessons in the third grade."Someone is murdering Memphis musicians, and once again, thirty-something and single newspaper columnist Britt Faire lands in the middle of the investigation. When former 60s girl group do-wopper and long-time Memphian Saundra Barkley is found murdered, the case makes major waves. Britt decides to write a column about her unusual career, but when she interviews Barkley's friends and family she is surprised by how many of them are willing to speak ill of the dead. Suddenly there seems to be no shortage of motives for the singer's murder.But when a young rapper named Mutha Boy is found dead with a steak knife in the back soon after, the parallels between the two musicians' deaths cause a stir. Is there a serial killer stalking Memphis musicians?Britt finds herself again pulled into a major criminal investigation, but this time, the killer knows exactly who she is--and where she lives. Readers will once again be charmed by Britt's sense of humor and caught up in her amateur investigation--as well as her tangle of romantic interests. Candy Justice has written another laugh-out-loud funny, lock-your-deadbolt creepy mystery you'll want to devour in an afternoon. Candy Justice, a former newspaper reporter and national magazine writer, now is a journalism professor at the University of Memphis.