An Invitation to Murder by AG Barnett

Rating: WARTY!

Idiot book blurb writer strieks again: "Replaced on her television crime drama, aging actress Mary Blake believes her sleuthing days are over. But when a murder mystery party ends in actual murder, Mary must play detective once again — and prove her own innocence." No, that's not how it works, you see? The prosecution has to prove your guilt - and do so beyond a reasonable doubt. You don't have to prove innocence, okay? Got it now? Good. There you go. Wasn't so hard was it? Now all you have to deal with is: how stupid is Mary Blake to imagine for a New York minute that acting in a cheesy, boring, formulaic, and predictbale TV crime drama even remotely equips her to investigate anything?