Love Heels! The TV News Business Can Be Murder

"PJ SANTINI... is the love child of Janet Evanovich and Elmore Leonard." -Toronto Star "CNN's LYNNE RUSSELL is back, in an explosion of page-turning talent." -Craig Nelson, New York Times best-selling author of Rocket Men and First Heroes. "Talk about a Renaissance woman, LYNNE RUSSSELL does it all!" -Warner Bro's.Television NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED. It puts you in the crosshairs. Of a murder rap, or a Meaningful Domestic Relationship. Which is more dangerous? PJ SANTINI, private investigator and television news reporter, is dusting off her Louboutin stilettos after a 2 a.m. cemetery shootout in Buffalo, NY. Already, her tanned, toned PI boss's new society divorce case is turning into a homicide investigation. It may kill her, but it won't get in the way of Chianti and pasta. Ma cooks. Pop works Cold Cases in the basement between meals. PJ wants those leggings that compress fat, pushing blood up to your temples and swelling your lips to new fullness with a perky smile that looks like you're passing gas. Her Sicilian Nonna, whose specialty is revenge, is jilted by her lover and invents Bidet therapy. Her "connected" cousin, Sandro "The Eel" DiLeo, needs a favor. WHAT COULD GO WRONG? PJ SANTINI lives in an uncharted corner of LYNNE RUSSELL'S brain. When PJ spends long, boring hours stuck in a car on a surveillance job, she amuses herself by counting all the places on her body where she can stash her gun – she's up to twelve, now – and she wishes to thank Lynne for the idea. It helps to make up for the indignity of having to pee into a one-pound coffee can. LYNNE RUSSELL anchored CNN for 18 years, the first woman to anchor a regular network nightly newscast, over 33,000 of them. For her unbiased dedication to the People's Right to Know, The New York Times called her a "just-the-facts stalwart of CNN Headline News". They also called her a news anchor with the personality of a professional wrestler, which she took as a compliment. In the Washington Journalism Review: a spot as Best in the Business. A private investigator, double black belt, and former Deputy Sheriff, Lynne now writes romantic crime novels. She and her husband live near Washington, D.C. and in Italy.