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  <name><![CDATA[Kathryn Lilley]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[As a pre-teen, I had two passions: Nancy Drew mysteries and Pralines ’n Cream ice cream. So it was perhaps inevitable that I grew up to write a series called the Fat City Mysteries.

My stories are set in Durham, North Carolina, the self-proclaimed “Diet Capital of the World.” And like my journalist sleuth, Kate Gallagher, I understand the Battle of the Bulge all too well. I once lost 90 pounds to land a job on camera as a TV reporter. And even today, I avoid the street that goes past 31 Flavors.

The first book in the Fat City Mysteries series will be Dying to Be Thin, scheduled to be published in October 2007. It’s a story about dieting, sex and murder set in a residential diet clinic (read: “fat farm”). In this clinic, the only things more dangerous than the food are the fondue forks… 
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  <title><![CDATA[Dying to Be Thin (A Fat City Mystery, #1)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kathryn Lilley]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.24</average_rating>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Killer Workout (A Fat City Mystery, #2)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kathryn Lilley]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.56</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>27</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Makeovers Can Be Murder (A Fat City Mystery, #3)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Kathryn Lilley]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.70</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>10</ratings_count>
  <published>2009</published>  
  
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