Small Town Spin (26 page)
Authors: LynDee Walker
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Reader’s Discussion Guide
1. Did you grow up in a small town or a big city? What did you love about it? What did you think life on the other side would be like?
2. Have you ever dealt with a jealous co-worker? How did you handle it?
3. Nichelle’s relationships with Joey and Kyle are heating up. Who are you rooting for, and why?
4. Nichelle and Parker have become good friends, a big difference from the opening of FRONT PAGE FATALITY. Does the direction their relationship took surprise you? Have you ever discovered someone wasn’t what you thought?
5. Did you agree with Nichelle’s suspicions at first? Why or why not?
6. Who was on your suspect list throughout the book?
7. Who was on Nichelle’s list that you just knew couldn’t have done it?
8. Which character did you most identify with? Why?
9. If you had a relative who was running a criminal enterprise, would you report it, or look the other way?
10. Did Miss Dorothy give Bobbi Jo a fair chance before passing judgment on her? How would you have handled that situation differently?
About LynDee Walker
LynDee Walker’s award-winning journalistic work has appeared in newspapers and magazines across the nation. After nearly a decade covering crime, courts, and local politics, she left full-time reporting for motherhood with a side of freelancing and fiction writing. Her debut novel, Front Page Fatality, is an Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel. Small Town Spin is the third in her bestselling Headlines in High Heels Mystery series. The fourth arrives January 2015.
LynDee adores her family, her readers, and enchiladas. She often works out tricky plot points while walking off the enchiladas. She lives in Richmond, Virginia, where she is either playing with her children or working on her next novel (but probably not cleaning her house). You can find her online at www.lyndeewalker.com.
In Case You Missed the 1
st
Book in the Series
FRONT PAGE FATALITY
LynDee Walker
A Headlines in High Heels Mystery (#1)
Crime reporter Nichelle Clarke’s days can flip from macabre to comical with a beep of her police scanner. Then an ordinary accident story turns extraordinary when evidence goes missing, a prosecutor vanishes, and a sexy Mafia boss shows up with the headline tip of a lifetime.
As Nichelle gets closer to the truth, her story gets more dangerous. Armed with a notebook, a hunch, and her favorite stilettos, Nichelle races to splash these shady dealings across the front page before this deadline becomes her last.
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In Case You Missed the 2
nd
Book in the Series
BURIED LEADS
LynDee Walker
A Headlines in High Heels Mystery (#2)
When an Armani-clad corpse turns up in the woods, crime reporter Nichelle Clarke smells a scoop. A little digging, and Nichelle uncovers a web of corruption that stretches all the way to Washington, D.C. Politics. Murder. And a dead lobbyist. It’s everything Nichelle’s ever dreamed of.
The cops are playing it close, the feds even closer, and Nichelle’s afraid her boss will assign the story to the political desk any day. Her sexy Mafia boss friend warns her off the case, her TV rival is hot on her designer heels, an ambitious copy editor wants her beat, and victims are piling up faster than she can track them down. As Nichelle zeroes in on the truth, it’ll take some fancy footwork to nab this headline before the killer nabs her.
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DATELINE MEMPHIS featured in
HEARTACHE MOTEL
Terri L. Austin, Larissa Reinhart, LynDee Walker
DINERS KEEPERS, LOSERS WEEPERS by Terri L. Austin:
When Rose heads to Graceland right before Christmas, she gets all shook up: the motel is a dump and an Elvis impersonator turns up dead. Rose discovers missing jewels tie into the death and her suspicious mind flips into overdrive, questioning her fellow guests, the staff, and even a cute impersonator who keeps popping up. Will Rose be able to find the murderer and get home by Christmas day? It’s now or never.
QUICK SKETCH by Larissa Reinhart:
Sassy Southern artist Cherry Tucker and her poker-loving boyfriend, Todd, pop into Memphis to help Todd’s cousin who’s been hustled out of his savings, right before Christmas. Staying at the shady Heartache Motel, Cherry can’t tell a shill from a mark and fears everyone is playing them for chumps. Cherry and Todd quickly find themselves in a dangerous sting that could send them to the slammer or mark them as pigeons from cons looking for an even bigger score.
DATELINE MEMPHIS by LynDee Walker:
Nichelle thinks she’s going home for Christmas. But a quick stop at Graceland proves news breaks in the strangest places. When the King’s home gets locked down with Nichelle inside, she chases this headline into the national spotlight—and the thief’s crosshairs. Christmas dreams of blue suede Manolos fade, and all Nichelle wants from Santa is to land the story before the thief cuts off her news feed for good.
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