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Plus-size reporter Kate Gallagher is facing the ultimate challenge -- wearing a bikini for an upcoming assignment about weight loss scams. Sticking to her diet won't be easy -- especially since her love life is already wasting away.

Kate learns she's not alone at a meeting of a women's support group, the Newbodies -- where her friend Lila confides that her marriage is in trouble. When Lila turns up dead, Kate's suspicions immediately fall on the husband. But that's before she finds out that Lila wasn't the first "Newbody" to die. Apparently a killer has an appetite for plus-sized victims...

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Welcome to my website and the home of Kate Gallagher, a spunky, slightly chunky TV journalist-turned-sleuth who stars in my Fat City Mystery novels.

In A Killer Workout (released October 2008 by Signet), Kate heads for a boot-camp style exercise retreat to do a little downsizing on her butt, only to wind up sugar-crashing it in the middle of a gruesome crime scene. She soon discovers that exercise can really be murder!

In Dying to Be Thin (released October 2007 by Signet), Kate travels to Durham, North Carolina, "Diet Capital of the World," to enter a clinic and achieve that "on-air" look, but she soon finds the inside story on a murder investigation when the one of the diet doctors ends up dead.

Kate uses her journalism skills to track down the doctor's killer, but then she finds that the tables are suddenly turned on her.

Take a look at my blog, The Kill Zone, for recent news and other insider info. I blog on Tuesdays.

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