Die for Love: A Jacqueline Kirby Novel of Suspense

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Harper Collins, Oct 13, 2009 - Fiction - 368 pages
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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 starry-eyed 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. Because there's a sinister scenario being penned at this purple prose congregation. And when jealousy and passion are given free rein beyond the boundaries of the printed page, the result can be murder.

 

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User Review  - Jean_Sexton - LibraryThing

I admit, this one makes me giggle. I like romances and this plays with the genre's worst tropes. I love how Jacqueline's romance story changes as she goes through the convention's seminars. The ... Read full review

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User Review  - susanamper - LibraryThing

Published in 1984. Not a sterling entry in the Jacqueline Kirby series. Peters is going for satire, I think, but it falls flat. (book description from Amazon) The annual Historical Romance Writers of ... Read full review

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
40
Section 3
63
Section 4
89
Section 5
117
Section 6
158
Section 7
197
Section 8
246
Section 11
349
Section 12
350
Section 13
351
Section 14
352
Section 15
353
Section 16
354
Section 17
355
Section 18
356

Section 9
293
Section 10
339
Section 19
357
Copyright

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About the author (2009)

Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago’s famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.

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TitleDie for Love: A Jacqueline Kirby Novel of Suspense
Volume 3 of Jacqueline Kirby Series
AuthorElizabeth Peters
PublisherHarper Collins, 2009
ISBN0061834114, 9780061834110
Length368 pages
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Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
Fiction / Romance / General
  
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