A Novel Way to Die — Karen Hanson Stuyck

When the body of bestselling mystery novelist Katherine March is discovered in her Austin home, the cause of death is presumed to be a heart attack. But an autopsy reveals that the sixty-year-old author died of an injected overdose of a potent anti-anxiety drug—a murder technique straight from one of Katherine's own novels.Katherine's daughter, criminology professor Molly Patterson, must push aside her long­standing resentment of her secretive, workaholic mother to uncover what really happened.The deeper Molly probes the more disturbing information she finds. A volatile would-be writer has been stalking Katherine. The friend who discovered Katherine's body inherited one million dollars on her death and seems to be lying about a number of pertinent facts. Hours before Katherine's death, Molly's father had requested a loan from his ex-wife, only to have her door slammed in his face.Everyone seems to believe that the novelist took her own life. Katherine had just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and the lavish Christmas gifts and uncharacteristically sentimental notes she sent Molly's family suggest a woman making her farewells. Only Molly and one other person believe that Katherine was murdered.Then the other person dies of an injected overdose of the same drug that killed Katherine, and Molly knows she's next on the killer's list. . . . A drug that doesn't just reduce anxiety; it causes it. It might be called A Novel Way to Die.