A Body to Die For

A Body to Die For by White, Kate. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780446613859.

Bailey Weggins, the very clever and the very irreverent true crime writer for Gloss, a leading womens magazine, is in desperate need of a little R&R after solving the murder of her boss nanny. A trip to the Cedar Inn and Spa seems like the perfect remedy. Bailey, totally full of Zen after her deep tissue massage, looks forward to all of the other treatments. Getting ready for bed, she realizes she forgot the Rolex that her father gave her before he died. She and Piper, her massage therapist, go back, only to discover a dead body getting a seaweed wrap. The body turns out to be Anna, another massage therapist. Detective Beck arrives, and against her better judgment, Bailey becomes infatuated with him, forgetting her tepid relationship with her boyfriend. Bailey learns that one of Annas clients died of heart failure after she worked on him. Then the spa owners second husband, who was clandestinely pursuing Anna, becomes suspect number one. But Annas past also provides numerous suspects. Was she killed by a client whod been rebuffed? Or by a male therapist who shed apparently spurned? Or the son of the heart attack victim who blames the spa for this fathers death? Or by someone from her deeper past? Bailey keeps digging, getting closer to the truth. Then theres a second horrifying murder at the inn, and its clear that Baileys life is in danger. Nothing prepares her for the answer she finds as she finally discovers who the murderer is.