Sex, Murder and a Double Latte by Kyra Davis

I had several issues with the main character. Her friend saves the day not her love interest - I loved this so much. The climatic ending with the villain is awesome and I want to tell you more but it would spoil it for every one reading the book. For some reason in most books I almost always enjoy the supporting characters in the books way more than the main characters. I also liked the location of San Francisco. I really enjoyed the mystery in this one and the main character is very different from other heroines I’ve read. Of course, if this were fiction, Anatoly would be her prime suspect. The man who swoops in to save her in dark alleys is mysterious new love interest Anatoly Darinsky. Cursing her grisly imagination (why, oh, why did she have to pick the ax?), Sophie engages in some real-life gumshoe tactics. If she doesn't solve the mystery, her own bestseller will spell out her doom. When a filmmaker friend is brutally murdered in the manner of a death scene in one of his movies, Sophie becomes convinced that a copycat killer is on the loose -and that she's the next target. The police, however, can't tell a good plot from an unmarked grave. So Sophie knows it's not paranoia or post-divorce, living-alone-again jitters, when she becomes convinced that a crazed reader is sneaking into her apartment to reenact scenes from her books.

Thriller scribe Sophie Katz is as hard-boiled as a woman who drinks Grande Caramel Brownie Frappuccinos can be. When a mystery writer cries bloody murder, everyone blames her overactive imagination.

Sex, Murder and a Double Latte by Kyra Davis