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Poison Pen by Sheila Lowe

Poison Pen

by Sheila Lowe

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  • Mar 2007, 288 pages
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Forensic handwriting expert Claudia Rose uses her wide range of experience when her old friend-turned-enemy, Lindsey Alexander, is found dead in her penthouse hot tub. There's suspicion that the suicide note found near Lindsey’s body is a fake, and that her death was no suicide. Paperback original.

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"A predictable and disappointing first effort." - Library Journal.

"Starred Review. When hunky LAPD detective Joel Jovanic enters the investigation, the "grapho lady" and the cop make a hot team, in and out of the sheets." - PW.

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This is the first novel from Lowe, author of Handwriting of the Famous and Infamous.

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