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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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Ninth in the Dead-End Job Mystery series:
Half-Price Homicide |
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Tired of living life on the lam, Helen Hawthorne goes back to St. Louis to clear her name of alimony evasion so she can remarry.
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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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| Shop till You Drop |
| by Joanne Sinchuk |
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Elaine Viets is one of our best selling authors at Murder on the Beach. It's been a while since her last book in the Francesca Vierling series set in St. Louis, so this new series is much anticipated. And Shop till You Drop is a winner.
Helen Hawthorne lives in the Coronado Tropic apartments in Ft. Lauderdale, and works at a series of dead-end jobs while hiding from the law and her ex-husband. Her current job is at Julianna's, an exclusive dress shop on Las Olas Boulevard where you must ring the doorbell and be screened before admittance is allowed. The head saleswoman, Christina, is the typical South Florida moneyed image: implants, long blonde hair (dyed), plump pouty lips (collagened), sapphire blue eyes (contacts), low rise pants tight enough to show the freckles on her butt, high heels, low neckline, and flat tummy pierced with silver rings. It's like a uniform down here. When I read those lines, I thought, "Elaine has got South Florida to a tee. This is going to be a great book." And it is.
As in most of Elaine's books, the plot is secondary to the characters and Elaine’s fabulous sense of humor. Her comments on South Florida life are dead on. I95 is a dangerous place to drive because it is full of "80's doing 20 and 20's doing 80." Helen's put down to the detective: "Implants don't lower a woman's IQ, detective, just a man's." I love it!
So I am very happy to announce that Elaine is back in full force and top form. I understand that each book in the Dead End Job Series will cover a different job, one in a large national chain bookstore, and one as a telemarketer. Elaine is actually spending time herself working at each of these jobs to research the books. What a writer won't sacrifice for her Art!
But if it produces books like this one, I say, Thanks Elaine. |
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| You may contact Joanne Sinchuk at mudermb@gate.net |
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| Posted 06-12-2003 |
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