Die for Love, Elizabeth Peters
Die for Love, Elizabeth Peters
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Die for Love
A Jacqueline Kirby Mystery

Author: Elizabeth Peters

Narrator: Grace Conlin

Unabridged: 9 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/03/2008

Synopsis

The annual Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York City is calling to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately desires some excitement. But all is not love and kisses at this august gathering of starryeyed eccentrics and sentimental scribes. As far as Jacqueline is concerned, the sudden "natural" death of a gossip columnist seems anything but. And when she's approached by a popular genre star who fears for her own life, the resourceful Ms. Kirby quickly goes back to work...as a sleuth. There's a sinister scenario being penned at this purple prose congregation. And when jealousy and passion are released from the boundaries of the printed page, the result can be murder.

About Elizabeth Peters

Elizabeth Peters (1927-2013) was one of the pseudonyms of American writer Barbara Louise Mertz, whose New York Times bestselling Amelia Peabody mysteries are often set against historical backdrops. In 1952, Peters earned a PhD in Egyptology at the University of Chicago. She was named grand master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and by the Mystery Writers of America in 1998. In 2003, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic Convention.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vintage on April 03, 2022

A four star re-read (or in this case listen). I would say that Jaqueline Kirby is the quintessential Peters heroine, sarcastic, intelligent, a man magnet, a little full of herself, and then I read an Amelia Peabody or Vicki Bliss and I change my mind because that is the best Peters heroine. Die for Lo......more

Goodreads review by Mary on February 12, 2023

Witty mystery set in the romance world. The heroine Jacqueline Kirby is quite a character, sarcastic, intelligent and definitely full of herself. She does a good job of solving the crimes.......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on March 13, 2013

Acerbic, clever Jacqueline Kirby has had it with her college librarian job in dreary, desolate Coldwater, Neb., and she makes her way back to the Big Apple for a romance writers’ conference — more as a vacation than as a future vocation. While she’s there, Jacqueline witnesses the death of Dubretta......more

Goodreads review by Simon on May 28, 2012

Originally published on my blog here in November 1999. The third Jacqueline Kirby novel is one of Elizabeth Peters' most outrageous. Setting a mystery at a romantic novels conference enables her to write several over the top spoofs of a genre almost beyond parody. Like her heroine, she clearly enjoys......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on March 04, 2021

Best one so far.......more

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