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MURDER OFF MIKE: A Talk Radio Mystery
by Joyce Krieg
Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press, April 2003
288 pages
$23.95
ISBN: 0312310269


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"Shock-talk" host Shauna J. Bogart doesn't get particularly concerned when "Rudy from West Sacramento" calls in to talk about "something peculiar" happening in the apartment building across the street from the California State Capitol. After all, as a Sacramento radio talk show host she's heard it all, from sane people to a wide variety of crazies.

But when she learns of a murder in that apartment building, and that the victim was none other than her friend and fellow radio personality "Dr. Hipster," she's not ready to accept the police finding that the bullet lodged in his head was self-inflicted.

Her investigation leads her to a leading candidate for governor who seems to have a dark secret buried in his past, a wild time at the city's famed Jazz Jubilee, and a pirate radio station which broadcasts at the oddest hours.

This is the winner of the 2002 Malice Domestic Contest (St. Martin's Press) for Best First Traditional Mystery. The author, herself a veteran radio broadcaster, takes the reader for an interesting look behind the scenes in talk radio, and populates her story with callers who all seem to have one oar out of the water, and fellow radio station staffers who appear to have wildly divergent personal agendas which Shauna has to unravel if she's to find out what really happened to Dr. Hipster.

When beloved boss T.R. O'Brien suddenly drops out of sight with no explanation, Shauna discovers she now has a double job: Find a killer and save T.R.'s station from a takeover made possible by a secret 40-year-old pact. Shauna knows there's one answer to both investigationsŠ.and that it's found in that mysterious contract.

When, at last, Shauna finds that pact, she has to survive a wild chase down the streets of Old Sacramento armed with a roll of copper wire and a pirate radio transmitter. She has to get on the air fast or her voice may be permanently removed from the Sacramento air waves.

Reviewed by Gary Svoboda, April 2003

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