{"id":15438,"date":"2012-04-02T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=15438"},"modified":"2012-03-22T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T15:04:23","slug":"if-looks-could-kill-book-1-of-the-bailey-weggins-mystery-series-by-kate-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/if-looks-could-kill-book-1-of-the-bailey-weggins-mystery-series-by-kate-white\/","title":{"rendered":"If Looks Could Kill – Book 1 of the Bailey Weggins mystery series by Kate White"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As someone who loves to read mysteries and is always on the hunt for another series to start, I stumbled upon the Bailey Weggins mystery series by Kate White and just finished If Looks Could Kill<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, the first book\u00a0in the series.\u00a0 Bailey Weggins is a freelance writer of crime and human interest stories for the monthly fashion and lifestyle magazine Gloss.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Early one Sunday morning Bailey is roused out of bed by her boss and the editor of Gloss<\/em>, Cat Jones, who can’t get her live-in nanny, Heidi,\u00a0to answer\u00a0the door of her basement suite.\u00a0\u00a0Bailey springs to action to help her boss figure out where Heidi has gone – and it isn’t far – when\u00a0Bailey discovers the nanny dead in\u00a0her suite.\u00a0 Cat pleads with Bailey to\u00a0use her sleuthing skills\u00a0to try\u00a0and figure out why Heidi was murdered.\u00a0 Bailey, who puts her investigative skills right to the test, dives into the case.<\/p>\n

The mystery heats up when it is determined that Heidi died from eating poisonous chocolate truffles that were an intended\u00a0 hostess gift for Cat.\u00a0 Who was the intended victim – Cat or Heidi?\u00a0 Bailey uncovers evidence that points to someone trying to poison the editors of high profile magazines and she\u00a0puts her life at risk with her unofficial investigation.<\/p>\n

If Looks Could Kill<\/strong><\/em> is a light (as far as mysteries are concerned) and easy read that\u00a0effortlessly blends fashion, vibrant New York City life and murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As someone who loves to read mysteries and is always on the hunt for another series to start, I stumbled upon the Bailey Weggins mystery series by Kate White and just finished If Looks Could Kill, the first book\u00a0in the series.\u00a0 Bailey Weggins is a freelance writer of crime and[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,5,8],"tags":[237,1909,333,519,1908],"class_list":["post-15438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-read-a-likes","category-staff-picks","tag-fashion","tag-magazine-publishing","tag-mystery","tag-new-york-city","tag-women-sleuths"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-410","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15438"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15483,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438\/revisions\/15483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}