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Elaine Viets is the author of two national bestselling mystery series.
Her Dead-End Job series is a satiric look at the minimum wage world. Elaine and her character, Helen Hawthorne, work a different low-paying job each book. They've been everything from bookstore clerks to hotel maids.
Elaine's second series, featuring Josie Marcus, looks at the pink-collar world of mystery shopping. It debuted with Dying in Style.
Elaine won the Agatha and Anthony Awards.
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Fifth in the Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper series:
Fashion Hound Murders |
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Eighth in the Dead-End Job Mystery series:
Killer Cuts |
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Helen is working in Miguel Angel's Ft. Lauderdale hair salon. When one of the salon's most famous clients, gossip blogger Kingman "King" Oden is murdered at his own wedding, Miguel is named a prime suspect.
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Seventh in the Dead-End Job Mystery series:
Clubbed to Death |
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Helen is dealing with the gripes of the rich and spoiled at the Superior Country Club complaint department. Helen's ex-husband Rob shows up with his wealthy girlfriend Marcella, aka the Black Widow.
The bodies start to pile up when Rob goes missing and a club patron is discovered with his membership permanently expired.
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Sixth in the Dead-End Job Mystery series:
Murder with Reservations |
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Helen Hawthorne is cleaning rooms at Sybil's Full Moon Hotel in Ft. Lauderdale. When police investigate the murder of another maid, Helen fears that she will be discovered by her two-timing ex-husband.
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Fifth in the Dead-End Job Mystery series:
Murder Unleashed |
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Helen Hawthorne is working at a Fort Lauderdale dog boutique, selling canine clothes and cuisine and learning about the world of rabid dog lovers. She meets the women who buy designed purses to sneak their pets into pricey condos. The folks who spend major money on dog birthday parties. The talented groomers who fall into artistic rages.
And Lulu, the store's four-legged supermodel, who has more clothes, manicures, massages and hair appointments than Helen.
When a trophy-wife customer winds up dead and Helen is the chief suspect, her life is definitely going to the dogs. |
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Fourth in the Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper series:
Murder With All the Trimmings |
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Third in the Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper series:
Accessory to Murder |
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Retail spy and single mom Josie Marcus investigates the murder of hot young designer Halley Hardwicke when Josie's best friend's husband is accused of murder. |
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Second in the Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper series:
High Heels are Murder |
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Josie Marcus mystery-shops a shoe store and gets caught up in St. Louis's underbelly.
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First in the Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper series:
Dying in Style |
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Josie Marcus's job as an undercover shopping policewoman takes her to boutiques, supermarkets and fast-food shops to report on quality and service.
When a large company considers paying millions for use of the prestigious Danessa name, Josie is hired to inspect the designer's stores anonymously. A less than stellar report from Josie, combined with Danessa found strangled with one of her own thousand-dollar snakeskin belts, puts the pressure on Josie to find the killer or go to jail.
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Fourth in the Dead-End Job Mystery series:
Just Murdered |
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Helen Hawthorne's fourth dead-end job takes her to upscale Millicent's Bridal Salon. A rich, obnoxious mother-of-the-bride named Kiki is killed and Helen's fingerprints are found on the murder weapon--a wedding dress.
There are plenty of suspects, including Kiki's husband, the bride, the groom, or one of the boy toys. Helen must solve the case to prove her innocence.
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| High Heels are Murder |
| by Jeannie Fernsworth |
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Set in photograph-perfect Malplewood, placed somewhere near St Louis, this story sways between Stepford wives and the crass class gambling in Missouri.
Sole sisters, mystery shoe shopper sleuths, and a boyfriend – girlfriend named Jose and Josh are a few of the pun alliterations Viets is so good at. Exchanges such as:
Josie “What kind of person has an affair with a high heel?”
Josh “My mom married a loafer.”
are eyebrow-lifting, curled-lip-smirking funny.
A 9 year olds girl’s dream shop named Dry Ice and a coffee shop named Has Beans make me want to run
to the mall and shop until I drop. Viets could have a second career as a store-naming consultant.
This Tip Toe Thru the Two Lips high heeled romp through the Soft Shoe Showroom world of foot fetishes makes Al Bundy look like the normal guy next door. The busybodies who live next door to the main character’s normal Midwestern value driven- life seem whacked, like they should really live in Florida or maybe California. Our hero, Josie dressed in a changing daily garb of curly, mop-topped wigs and showcase clothing get-ups, shops her way through the days of mystery mall shopping. Retail shoppers beware of what lurks in the store; you never know what is out there to keep you honest.
There are six pages of shoe shopping tips from the author. They include:
Rough up leather soled shoes along a concrete sidewalk so that the slippery soles have some traction.
Shop for shoes at the end of the day because your feet swell as the day goes on.
Men, looking for a good conversation starter, tell her you like her shoes!
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| You may contact Jeannie Fernsworth at murdermb@gate.net |
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| Posted 02-11-2006 |
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