Lethally Blond by Kate White
Kate White is one busy lady. Besides being editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine, which includes overseeing Cosmo Radio, Cosmo.com and Cosmo Books, she's also a New York Times bestselling author. Her latest thriller, available in paperback this month, lands Bailey Weggins on the set of a new TV show appropriately entitled Morgue, where she investigates the disappearance of a young actor. As White's true crime writer delves into the glamorous and crazy world of TV, she soon finds herself in the middle of a real killer story. And also in jeopardy, in the line of fire. When Bailey realizes that someone's stalking her, she has no choice but to solve the case quickly--lest she herself become the inspiration for Morgue's next episode.Publishers Weekly describes LETHALLY BLOND as "sharper than a stiletto heel, funnier than a bad dye job and full of fuchsia herrings ... White keeps the reader guessing whodunit to the end." The New York Sun praises the novel as "a sexy whodunit."
The inspiration for LETHALLY BLOND came from White's own life. "When my son was thirteen, we were at our weekend home in Pennsylvania, which bordered a wooded area. Late on a Saturday in winter, as it was growing dark and beginning to snow hard, I realized my son wasn't in the house. We found something he'd been playing with at the edge of the woods and a few footprints. The dog was gone as well. But eventually the dog came back and my son didn't. We searched the woods for hours and finally found him. But it was terrifying. It made me want to write about someone who goes missing. As for the TV part, my husband is a former news anchor who is now an actor and I've always been fascinated by his work." She adds, "fortunately I was able to use some of my work contacts to get on the set of a crime show not unlike Morgue. It was fabulous. And then there's the pure fun of just making stuff up."
With her busy schedule, she writes her novels mainly on weekends. Says White, "It's actually a great stress reliever for me, and I look forward to it." She adds a confession: "I read a bunch of time management books years ago to help me overcome a near terminal case of procrastination."What's next? "I have my first stand-alone thriller coming out with Harper Collins early next year and I loved doing it."
Kate White is the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine. She is the author of four other Bailey Weggins mysteries, as well as the non-fiction bestsellers WHY GOOD GIRLS DON'T GET AHEAD BUT GUTSY GIRLS DO and YOU ON TOP: SMART, SEXY SKILLS EVERY WOMAN NEEDS TO SET THE WORLD ON FIRE.
Contributing editor Sibylle Barrasso is the author of Dark Waters. She was a finalist in the "St. Martins Press Best First Private Eye Novel Contest," received an award from Sue Grafton at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, and was a contributing author of Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Badlands, a critical anthology about mysteries set in the Southwest.
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