Becky Clark Boeken

"Mystery author Charlemagne 'Charlee' Russo thinks the twisty plots and peculiar murders in her books are only the product of her imagination--until her agent is found dead exactly as described in Charlee's new, unpublished manuscript. Suspicion now swirls around her and her critique group ... The police care more about Charlee's feeble alibi and financial problems than they do her panicky claims of innocence. To clear her name and revive her career, she must figure out which of her friends is a murderer. Easier said than done, even for an author who's skilled at creating tidy endings for her mysteries. And as her sleuthing grows dangerous, Charlee's imagination starts working overtime. Is she being targeted, too?"--Amazon.com.

When mystery author Charlee Russo arrives at a Portland writers' conference, she learns that the adult daughter of the organizer has been kidnapped. Unfortunately, Viv Lundquist has a history of embellishing the truth, and her daughter Hanna has a history of disappearing. Charlee takes over the conference planning while trying to untangle the problematic web of the kidnapping