Nice Girls Finish Last: A Robin Hudson Mystery

Sparkle Hayter. Penguin Books, $5.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-14-024516-5

A new mystery starring New York TV-tabloid reporter (and recent divorcee) Robin Hudson. (Apr.)

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