No one bats an eyelid when a bag lady washes up on the shores of Sydney, minus five fingers and decked out in designer couture; nor is anyone too perturbed when socialite Beatrice Musgrave plunges to her death soon after. No one, that is, except ghostwriter and Merlot-lover Roxy Parker. She's been writing Beattie's 'autobiography' and has just stumbled on a secret that's worth killing for. With slick black hair, tortoise-shell glasses and a penchant for cheap Merlot, Roxy Parker is a sassy new female detective ... except she's not strictly a detective. Rather, she's a writer with a taste for...

A NOTE BEFORE DYING is the sixth stand-alone mystery in the fun, fast-paced series featuring gutsy ghostwriter/amateur sleuth Roxy Parker. When uber rock legend Jed Moody is electrocuted while strutting his stuff on stage, he's lucky he's got one true fan in the audience-ghostwriter Roxy Parker. She may be there to write his life story but now she wants to know who snuffed it out so violently, and why. Could it be a string of lovers or his long-suffering wife? An embittered band member or the money hungry publicist? And what about all those local villagers who resent the upstart rock star,...

Gutsy ghostwriter Roxy Parker is back, and this time it's personal. Someone is killing best-selling authors and the evidence points firmly at Roxy's agent, Oliver. But she's not convinced. With the help of seductive reporter David Lone, Roxy tries to hunt down the killer before she becomes the hunted-little does she know, a ghostwriter is next on the hit list Will this be Roxy's last writes?