Fat City Mystery Series

Plus-size reporter Kate Gallagher is facing the ultimate challenge. She has to bare her belly in a bikini on camera for an upcoming assignment about weight loss scams. Sticking to her diet won’t be easy—especially since it’s her love life that’s wasting away.
 
Kate learns she’s not alone at a meeting of a women’s support group, the Newbodies—where her friend Lila confides that her marriage is in trouble. When Lila turns up dead, Kate’s suspicions immediately fall on the husband. But that’s before she finds out that Lila wasn’t the first “Newbody” to meet a violent death. Apparently a killer has an appetite for plus-sized victims, and Kate may be next.
 
Well, chasing a murderer is one way to trim down.

Welcome to Durham, North Carolina, the diet capital of the world…

A KILLER WORKOUT

After suffering yet another setback in her War on Fat, plus-sized reporter Kate Gallagher decides the time has come for a full-on offensive.  Taking time off from Channel Twelve, she signs on for active duty at Body Blast, a boot camp-style fitness program.  In addition to a regimen of brutal exercise and bland food, the rules are so tough that Kate’s roomie, Marnie Taylor, is almost thrown out for smuggling in candy, and then again for skirting an obstacle wall.

The next day, Marnie is missing—and when she’s discovered with a broken neck at the foot of the wall, the “boots” suspect foul play.  It’s not the first suspicious accident at the camp—another woman recently fell to her death during a Wilderness Challenge.  Kate knows that losing weight is hard, but it shouldn’t be mortal combat!  If someone is picking off dieters, she’d better kick her investigative skills into high gear—before the sights land on her…

Welcome to Durham, North Carolina, the diet capital of the world.
 
Plus-sized TV producer Kate Gallagher has been told she has the “face” for TV—it’s the body she needs to work on. So, when she gets dumped by her boyfriend and laid off from her job in the same week, Kate decides to trade in her Whoopie Pies for thinner thighs and enrolls in an exclusive weight loss clinic in Durham, North Carolina.
 
After just one day at the Hoffman Clinic, Kate is about ready to sell her soul for a White Mocha with a doughnut chaser. Working freelance on a story about her own transformation, she must endure petrified fruit and tasteless gruel, sunrise walks, and crazy neighbors. But when the clinic’s principal diet guru turns up dead with a pair of fondue forks where his eyes should be, Kate loses her appetite. Now that the menu features murder, she’s got a breaking story on her hands.