This Pen for Hire by Laura Levine

 This is the first Jaine Austen (no relation) book in the series, as well as the first one that I read. It was good, good enough to get me hooked on the entire series. Sure enough, I ended up reading the whole thing within a day. That's the way it is with me and murder mysteries. Once I start them, I have to finish in order to be able to get any peace, because I HAVE to know who did it. Most of the time, I am able to figure it before the end, but onto the book itself.

I found Jaine Austen a wonderful character, I totally relate to her, as well as laugh with her. The books are wonderfully written and I can't wait to read more.

In the first novel, we are introduced to Jaine who is a freelance writer who's business is titled This Pen for Hire, which is also the title of the book (coincidence? no quite). Jaine's current client is a man named Howard who is in love with his arobics instructor, Stacy, and wants Jaine to write a love letter for him to give to her. She does, he does, and it works. That is when the story takes off.

We meet many different characters, each of whom has a motive to kill Stacy (isn't that always the case?). So, along with Jaine, we go interview each person, trying to decide who did it to help get poor Howard out of jail.

As all mysteries do, in the end, we find out what happened. Can you figure out who it was before the end of the book? I did : )

Until next time...