From Publishers Weekly
In the charming third mystery by Agatha-nominee Krieg starring Shauna J. Bogart (after 2004's Slip Cue), the gutsy Sacramento, Calif., radio personality finds herself up to her eyeballs in personal problems. Shauna's boss insists that she feature a local psychic on her show ("riding gain" refers to the mixing Shauna has to do to maintain audio levels when the psychic goes all high and breathy into the mike). The handwriting is on the wall. Ramping up her job search, Shauna's soon offered a post at a station in L.A. She doesn't fancy moving, but the salary is unbeatable. Shauna's love life is heating up, too—beau Pete Kovacs indicates he might be willing to accompany her to the City of the Stars. If that's not enough, Shauna's former intern is found gunned down in a public park. The cops conclude he got mixed up in a drug deal gone wrong, but both Shauna and the victim's mother think otherwise. So off Shauna goes to investigate the killing. The plot's turns and twists make this the best yet in the series.
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From Booklist
Krieg's latest entry in the Talk Radio Mystery series finds protagonist Shauna J. Bogart at a crossroads. Although she takes pride in her show on Sacramento's independent talk-radio station, Shauna is disturbed by recent trends. First, she's passed over for a promising San Francisco morning show because she's older than the other candidate. Then her station's owner, T. R. O'Brien, insists that Shauna give part of her show to a psychic. Maybe, Shauna thinks, it's time to sell out to the radio conglomerate that's been courting her; but before she has a chance to act on that idea, a former intern of hers, Travis, is murdered, and the accused killer's family swears he's innocent. Helping Shauna solve the mystery is her current intern, Josh. Krieg gives readers an interesting look into the world of talk radio, and Shauna's tough-but-lovable personality makes her great company. Jenny McLarin
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Review
"SLIP CUE continues the tradition of the amateur sleuth in fine fashion." - Romantic Times"
Book Description
When Shauna J. Bogart's former intern is shot to death in the city park, the grandmother of the suspect, another young man, asks Shauna J. for help. The young man tried to run from the murder scene and was shot and seriously wounded by the police. The youth's grandmother is certain he is innocent and Shauna agrees to look into it. A murder-mystery might be just the thing to distract her from her own problems, which are currently numerous.
Shauna J.'s boss has added a weekly spot for a self-styled psychic into her program, without even telling her. She's been getting puzzling call-ins from someone who claims to be her high school friend. And she's learned that a network station with an almost-promised job for her thinks her image is "too old." Another offer is in the wind, but does she want it enough to move from her beloved Sacramento to Los Angeles? More important, would Pete Kovacs, her significant other, be willing to make the move?
Taking up the case, Shauna J. enlists her willing assistant, Josh, and the pair hunts down every puzzling clue. What they turn up is an evil scheme that touches more and more of the people they encounter and threatens Shauna J., as well as those around her, with sudden death.
In her prize-winning first novel, Murder Off Mike, Joyce Krieg proved that going behind the scenes of talk radio can be fun, fascinating, and sometimes downright scary. She continues to prove it delightfully in this, Shauna J. Bogart's third escapade.
Shauna J.'s boss has added a weekly spot for a self-styled psychic into her program, without even telling her. She's been getting puzzling call-ins from someone who claims to be her high school friend. And she's learned that a network station with an almost-promised job for her thinks her image is "too old." Another offer is in the wind, but does she want it enough to move from her beloved Sacramento to Los Angeles? More important, would Pete Kovacs, her significant other, be willing to make the move?
Taking up the case, Shauna J. enlists her willing assistant, Josh, and the pair hunts down every puzzling clue. What they turn up is an evil scheme that touches more and more of the people they encounter and threatens Shauna J., as well as those around her, with sudden death.
In her prize-winning first novel, Murder Off Mike, Joyce Krieg proved that going behind the scenes of talk radio can be fun, fascinating, and sometimes downright scary. She continues to prove it delightfully in this, Shauna J. Bogart's third escapade.
About the Author
Joyce Krieg, like Shauna J., is a veteran broadcaster, both on and off the air. Krieg's many awards and honors include being named Professional of the Year by the Sacramento Public Relations Association and being inducted into the Valley Broadcast Legends for working in local radio for more than twenty years. She lives in Pacific Grove, California.
