Brazen Virtue

Pages: 288
Published: 1988
Language: English

Superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe is looking for a break after a book tour, but a visit to her sister in Washington D.C. turns deadly. Grace discovers her sister, Kathleen, was working as a phone-sex operator named Desiree for an agency called Fantasy, Inc. to fund a custody battle. When Kathleen is found murdered, Grace is thrust into a real-life mystery, one that mirrors her own novels, and she must find the killer before she becomes the next victim.

Prose complexity: 7/10

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Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950) is an American author of more than 225 romance novels. She writes as J. D. Robb for the in Death series and has also written under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publications in the U.K. as Sarah Hardesty. Roberts was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame.