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Neal Lipschutz is a long-time journalist. He is a former deputy editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal. He also previously served as the Journal’s ethics and standards editor as well as the top editor at Dow Jones Newswires. In addition to his journalism work, his short fiction has appeared in a number of publications. No Write Way to Die is his first novel and the initial installment in a series of mysteries. 

No Write Way to Die by Neal Lipschutz

       Scott Morgan's carefully crafted life---one he had worked hard to insulate from the sort of tumult he had experienced growing up---is upended when a murder victim is found in his daughter's Manhattan apartment. Scott and his loved ones become prime suspects. 

       Morgan had lifted himself out of his old Brooklyn neighborhood into a successful career as a respected management consultant. A sign of his progress: his current address is an expensive home in the affluent suburb of Scarsdale, New York. When his twenty-eight-year-old daughter brings home a new beau---a fifty-five-year-old one hit wonder of a novelist---Scott suspects the writer is a serial user of people and sets out to expose him.

         Murder, however, applies a screeching halt to Scott's investigation, as he, his wife, and daughter become suspects. His quest to forestall catastrophe means facing submerged demons from his Brooklyn past and matching wits with a clever and idiosyncratic NYPD detective. Scott's tool kit consists of the take-no-prisoners lessons he's gleaned from an ethics-free approach to business. How far will Scott go to protect everything he's worked for?