The Killing Club

From Publishers Weekly

The authors of this elaborate thriller-spoof are an odd team: Walsh is a fictional character from the soap opera One Life to Live and Edgar-winner Malone is the ABC show's former head writer. The book has nothing to do with the TV program or its characters. Marcie herself isn't even a character. But on the actual television soap, the character Marcie will be writing a book - this book - as part of the show, and there will be eerie echoes of Marcie's plot - this plot - on the show. The book's heroine is 20-something Jamie Ferrara, a police homicide detective in the small New Jersey town of Gloria. When one of Jamie's high school buddies is killed in what looks like an accident, Jamie is reminded that during her senior year, she and the victim belonged to the Killing Club, in which members designed strategies for killing people they didn't like. When Jamie realizes that the accident victim invented his own murder scenario, she starts investigating. Walsh/Malone craft an interesting plot spiced up by the Peyton Placeâ?"like antics of Gloria's residents. At one point, Jamie asks herself, "Was there anybody in Gloria... who wasn't cheating on a spouse?" Kind of like Llanview, where One Life to Live takes place. If "author" Walsh is killed off on OLTL, she can always make a new career writing readable, enjoyable mysteries, as long as she teams up with Malone. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

From AudioFile

Bold and bored, a group of high school kids forms a club with the single purpose of dreaming up ingenious ways to kill people they don't like. Each pretends to carry out a murder, which is then recorded in their Death Book. More than a decade later, Killing Club members are being murdered using methods from the Death Book. Detective Sergeant Jamie Ferrara, a former Killing Club member, is assigned to solve the mystery. Reader Staci Snell turns in a solid performance. As Ferrara she provides just the right tempo and emotions for this feisty cop who keeps her cool as lifelong friends become both victims and suspects. T.J.M. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.