Riding Gain
A Talk Radio Mystery
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Publisher Description
In her prize-winning first novel, Murder Off Mike, Joyce Krieg proved that going behind the scenes of talk radio can be fun, fascinating, and sometimes downright scary. She continues to prove it delightfully in Riding Gain, Shauna J. Bogart's third escapade.
When Shauna J. Bogart's former intern is shot to death in the city park, the grandmother of the suspect, another young man, asks Shauna J. for help. The young man tried to run from the murder scene and was shot and seriously wounded by the police. The youth's grandmother is certain he is innocent and Shauna agrees to look into it. A murder-mystery might be just the thing to distract her from her own problems, which are currently numerous.
Shauna J.'s boss has added a weekly spot for a self-styled psychic into her program, without even telling her. She's been getting puzzling call-ins from someone who claims to be her high school friend. And she's learned that a network station with an almost-promised job for her thinks her image is "too old." Another offer is in the wind, but does she want it enough to move from her beloved Sacramento to Los Angeles? More important, would Pete Kovacs, her significant other, be willing to make the move?
Taking up the case, Shauna J. enlists her willing assistant, Josh, and the pair hunts down every puzzling clue. What they turn up is an evil scheme that touches more and more of the people they encounter and threatens Shauna J., as well as those around her, with sudden death.
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In the charming third mystery by Agatha-nominee Krieg starring Shauna J. Bogart (after 2004's Slip Cue), the gutsy Sacramento, Calif., radio personality finds herself up to her eyeballs in personal problems. Shauna's boss insists that she feature a local psychic on her show ("riding gain" refers to the mixing Shauna has to do to maintain audio levels when the psychic goes all high and breathy into the mike). The handwriting is on the wall. Ramping up her job search, Shauna's soon offered a post at a station in L.A. She doesn't fancy moving, but the salary is unbeatable. Shauna's love life is heating up, too beau Pete Kovacs indicates he might be willing to accompany her to the City of the Stars. If that's not enough, Shauna's former intern is found gunned down in a public park. The cops conclude he got mixed up in a drug deal gone wrong, but both Shauna and the victim's mother think otherwise. So off Shauna goes to investigate the killing. The plot's turns and twists make this the best yet in the series.
