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Rhonda Pollero is the USA Today bestselling author (writing as Kelsey Roberts) of more than 25 novels. She's won numerous Romantic Times Awards, the Holt Medallion, a Career Achievement, and 17 nominations for other industry awards. She graduated with honors from the University of Maryland and lives with her family in South Florida.

Rhonda Pollero is the USA Today bestselling author (writing as Kelsey Roberts) of more than 25 novels. She's won numerous Romantic Times Awards, the Holt Medallion, a Career Achievement, and 17 nominations for other industry awards. She graduated with honors from the University of Maryland and lives with her family in South Florida.

Publishers Weekly

With more than 25 contemporary romances (Automatic Proposal, etc.) under the pen name Kelsey Roberts, Pollero makes her frivolous but fun mystery debut featuring Finley Anderson Tanner (F.A.T.), a 29-year-old West Palm Beach paralegal whose designer name-dropping prattle and discount shopaholism obscure her smarts. Bored silly by her job in the estates and trusts department, she agrees to help a senior partner handle a client convinced that her deceased husband didn't fall asleep at the wheel but was actually murdered. Finley's sweet but boring boyfriend is out of town, and her credit cards are maxed out, so she applies her bargain-hunting instincts to the investigation and finds a statistical improbability in the "accidental" deaths of several jurors after a medical malpractice suit. She meets the obligatory bad boy detective, Liam McGarrity, and wriggles out of several tight spots in this lighthearted romp. (Mar.)