The Last Word

For obituary writer Winter Snow, memorializing one’s life is more than a way to make a living, it’s a way to give comfort to the grief-stricken next of kin. So, when the very much alive Leocadia Arlington requests an obituary for herself and insists it be done by week’s end, Winter’s intrigue turns to alarm. Is her client being threatened? Is she ill or worse suicidal? Even more troubling, after finding the woman sprawled at the bottom of the staircase in her magnificent Ridgefield, Connecticut mansion, Winter finds herself thrust in the center of the murder of a woman shrouded in a mysterious past and whose secret revealing memoir has gone missing.

As more bodies pile up, fingers point at Winter, and after the very sexy cop Kip Michaels arrives on the scene along with his lascivious partner Tom Bellini, she isn’t sure if they are there to help her or to arrest her. With the aid of her foodie Uncle Richard who solves all his problems in the kitchen; her wise octogenarian neighbor Horace who seems to know her next steps before she does; her last of a dying breed reporter friend, Scoop, a vegetarian rescuer of pets; and a willful Great Pyrenees puppy named Diva, Winter discovers that secrets from Mrs. Arlington’s past have set murder in motion. Now she must unravel the mystery before the next obituary written is her own