Sparkle Hayter: Nice Girls Finish Last

From the Publisher:
At thirty-seven, with one failed marriage and several lousy dates behind her, Robin Hudson is working on a new attitude - a Positive Mental Attitude. Sure, she's still toiling away in the tabloidesque Special Reports unit at the All News Network for her loathsome boss Jerry Spurdle, but amidst rumors of cutbacks she thinks a good attitude might improve her karma. Besides, she's added to her personal defense system a new weapon - a hot-glue gun with two settings, steam and spray - so what could go wrong?

Then her gynecologist is murdered, and Jerry sends Robin to investigate a link with the S&M sex-club underworld. In the meantime, somone is taking potshots at ANN's male talent. Are the shootings connected to the murder of her doctor? To Robin? Her Positive Mental Attitude hanging gy a thred, Robin must solve the mystery - or she may never have another date.

Sparkle Hayter: Nice Girls Finish Last. Penguin USA; ISBN: 0140245162, 256 pages (April 1997), 256 p., $5.95