Jill Orr, “The Bad Break”

Humorous suspense author Jill Orr continues her quirky mystery series about small-town sleuth Riley Ellison. In “The Bad Break,” Riley has taken a great leap of faith by giving up her comfortable job at the Tuttle Corner Library for the exciting world of print journalism. Except that so far it hasn’t been very exciting. All that changes when Riley’s friend Tabitha finds her soon-to-be father-in-law dead on the floor of his office, and Riley is asked to write his obituary. And when they discover Tabitha’s fiancé’s knife sticking out of his father’s chest, Riley finds herself with a murder investigation to cover as well. Will Riley’s rookie mistakes lead to more than just her byline ending up on the obituary page?