Good writing and an interesting female character make this a fun read. The plot, as a mystery, is a little thin but I enjoyed it anyway. ( )

Edited To Death featured Maggie Fiori, a former stay-at-home mom who dabbles in writing for a local San Francisco Bay Area magazine. She discovers her editor and former lover murdered and somehow becomes the new editor of the magazine.

Although I love cozies, this seemed a little flat. I guess I wasn't crazy about either Maggie or her husband. I wanted to love this book but I didn't. (I didn't hate it either.) Most moms wouldn't let their kids be threatened and still keep up detective work. A part time writer taking over management of a magazine also seems somewhat improbable.

I wish the author much luck on her series. I requested the book as it was set in San Francisco and I enjoyed the setting. ( )

Maggie Fiori is a freelance writer who finds her editor dead upon arriving at his apartment to talk about an assignment. This sets her on the path to become an amateur sleuth in search of the killer. I chose this book because it was set in the Bay area, one of my favorite locations, and because the protagonist was a writer (another of my favorite pastimes). While the book kept my attention, I really couldn't rate it a page-turner. And there were a couple of things that just didn't seem right: 1) Maggie seems to have had a fairly lengthy affair with her editor, even though she was happily married to someone more attractive and more her age. I don't dismiss the possibility that this could happen, just that the explanation was a bit flimsy. 2) It also didn't seem realistic that Maggie would choose detection over her family's safety. I can't imagine a mother doing that. But then, I guess, novels don't have to be realistic. It's just that these little things seemed to nag at me while reading.

The main character, Maggie, was advertised as having a "smart mouth" and "razor-sharp wit" but she didn't really seem all that bright to me. And, I didn't find her dialogue to be "smart-mouthed", but rather mundane instead. And, unlike some novels that promise a sequel, I'm not sure I have the desire to read another book of her exploits. It was an OK book, decent story line, but somehow didn't keep me on the edge of my seat. I didn't really care for any of the supporting characters...they seemed a little too "generic" for me. ( )

This book has a rather interesting approach for a cozy mystery. Usually, the sleuth is the "good girl" with lots of intuition and deductive reasoning. In this book, the sleuth is a bright, yet bored (dangerous combination) housewife and mother of two, who strayed in search for a little excitement in her life. Although that chapter is presumably behind her, it keeps nipping at her heels - reminding her that she is precariously perched on the edge of destroying her marriage and alienating her family.

Initially, I didn't care for the lead character but through the book there is is improvement of character and moral fiber. The occasional coarse language did not particularly add to the dialogue or story development. But all in all, it was a suspenseful read and kept the reader guessing. ( )

Maggie Fiori is an amateur sleuth - a part-time writer who considers herself more of a stay-at-home mom. When the editor of the magazine she writes for (a man she had an affair with) is found murdered, everything comes out into the open and Maggie tries to find out who did it in an effort to save her marriage.

I found Maggie and the rest of the characters (particularly her husband), unlikable in a way that made it hard for me to keep reading, but I soldiered on and was met with a somewhat flat mystery that I felt I had solved three quarters of the way through. ( )