Writers of the Purple Sage — Barbara Burnett Smith

IT WASN'T AS LETHAL ON PAPER
When a judge dies after a public argument with aspiring writer Jolie Wyatt, she naturally feels a little guilty. But when the folks of Purple Sage learn that the judge was murdered by the same method Jolie devised for her whodunit -- the whole town thinks she is guilty.

Now Jolie must turn her talent for creating murder into solving one. Her suspicions fall on her writer's group. Did one among them hate her enough to frame her?

Battling a teenage son, an ex-husband and a town circling like vultures, Jolie's feeling the heat. Especially when a killer decides to fuel the plot by adding another corpse -- Jolie's -- to the mystery.