Front Page Teaser: A Liz Higgins Mystery (Liz Higgins Mysteries) - Softcover

Rosemary Herbert is a fresh and compelling new voice in crime fiction. Like a shot of good whiskey, Front Page Teaser is short and bracing. You'll love it. I did. -- Robert B. Parker Making her debut as a novelist, Herbert, a former LJ reviewer, librarian, and authority on the mystery novel (The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing), brings all of her newspaper experience to bear in this neatly plotted tale of misdirection. * Library Journal * Front Page Teaser is a gripping tale of an investigative reporter on the hunt. Rosemary Herbert has a huge advantage in writing it. As one of us 'ink-stained wretches' who write the news, she's been there and done that, knows the way reporters write and how to make the story move. -- Tom Hillerman Front Page Teaser puts readers smack dab in the middle of the newsroom. In this Boston-inflected tale...Rosemary Herbert shows why a newspaper is the best place for a mystery writer to start and a fine place to start a mystery. Front Page Teaser is a winner and so is Liz Higgins. I look forward to Herbert handing her scrappy reporter her next assignment. -- Gerry Boyle In Front Page Teaser - which could easily be called Front Page Turner - Rosemary Herbert has spun a masterful web of mystery and murder. This book has movie - good movie - written all over it. -- Alfred Alcorn

This Boston-based mystery stars smart and sassy Beantown Banner reporter Liz Higgins, who rails at being assigned only light news highlighted in front page teasers. She vows to change that by finding a missing mom and nailing front-page news in the process. Liz's quest takes her into Boston's lively Irish pub/Celtic music scene, the elegant Wellesley landscape, and as far as Fiji. Along the way, she courageously pursues a tangle of clues and falls for two very different men: the enigmatic forensics expert Dr. Cormack Kinnaird and the warmhearted Tom Horton, who pastes ads on the huge billboard that dwarfs Liz's tiny house on the edge of the Mass Pike.