num_pages: 192
description: She would have killed for a bestseller--but someone beat her to it...Professor of Passion, the smutty new romance from Mildred Twiller--a.k.a. Azalea Twilight--isn't the kind of book Claire Malloy likes to hock at her bookstore, but Claire agrees to host a book party for her friend's trashy tale. As torrid as the novel is, it's nothing compared to the evening. After the party, poor Mildred is found dead in her home--strangled with a tightly knotted silk scarf. Now it's up to Claire to find Mildred's killer, and it won't be easy--the two-bit author had offended nearly every faculty member she worked with at nearby Faber College. But who could have hated Mildred with such smoldering passion?
language: English
title: Strangled Prose
titlecomplete: Strangled Prose (Claire Malloy, #1)
characters: Claire Malloy
genres: Cozy Mystery, Books About Books, Mystery, Adult, Humor, Novels, Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 2171
places: Arkansas
series: Claire Malloy
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks