Books

Mystery

How To Stage a Murder

About

Robbie McNeil takes pride in successfully balancing her career as a contract killer with co-owning a karaoke bar with her queerplatonic partner, Dee. And not to brag, but very soon, Robbie will be adding ‘musical theater producer’ to her resume, because if you have the opportunity to put on a musical, why not go for it?

When a new client hires her for a hit, it’s sketchy as hell that he won’t tell her anything about the target beyond a name. But hey, she didn’t build her reputation by asking questions. However, when her new target vanishes entirely with no record he ever existed, Robbie chucks her no-questions-asked policy out the window, determined to figure out who this target really is—and why she was hired to kill someone who doesn’t exist. And if it’s not too much to ask, she’d love to do so while keeping this job-gone-wrong from toppling her carefully balanced life and endangering her partner and their bar.

Status

On submission

Length

89,000 words

Genre

Mystery

Content Warnings

Frequent references to/discussion of murder throughout; internalized ableism; drinking/alcohol use; gambling; stalking; threats of physical violence; brief scene of queerphobia

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