Shop Till You Drop: A Dead-End Job Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

ELAINE VIETS

Mystery

Signet

<p>"Retail spy and single mom Josie Marcus knows that mystery shopping isn't always glamorous-like when she has to sample greasy fast food...or her best friend's husband, Jake, is accused of murder. Someone has killed Halley Hardwicke, the hot young designer of thousand-dollar Italian silk scarves, in the mall parking lot. Now the police suspect Jake, who lives near the wrap maven's home, because Halley and he were a little too neighborly. So Josie decides to go undercover to see if she can find some clues. And there's a lot more at stake than a scarf-even if it is to die for.</p>

Accessory to Murder

New American Library

Helen Hawthorne has just found her new calling as a telemarketer, and before long she's disrupting dinners all over the country. But during a phone survey to the home of Henry Asporth, she's the one who gets an earful when she overhears an argument, followed by a scream - and then dead air.  Available only in Mystery 4.

Dying To Call You: A Dead-End Job Mystery

Thorndike Press

In the exclusive, gated enclave of Olympia Forest Estates, death investigator Angela Richman watches a mansion go up in a fiery blaze. With it, seventy-year-old financier Luther Delor, a drunken, bed-hopping rhinestone cowboy. Embroiled in a bitter divorce, Delor may have scandalized Chouteau Forest, but his murder has united it against the accused: Delor’s twenty-year-old girlfriend, Kendra Salvato, an “outsider.” With an engagement ring bigger than Chouteau County, she’s being railroaded straight to death row as a gold-digging killer.All there is against Kendra is vicious gossip and anti-Mexican rage, and both are spreading like wildfire. Meanwhile, Angela is trying to douse the flames with forensic work that’s putting the Forest on edge. After all, facts could implicate one of their own. Now, sifting through the ashes of a vicious crime—and the guilty secrets of the privileged—only Angela can get to the truth, and prevent an innocent woman from getting burned.

Fire and Ashes (Angela Richman, Death Investigator, 2)

Literature & Fiction

United States

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The national bestselling author who turns “minimum wage into maximum hilarity”( Nancy Martin, author of Murder Melts in Your Mouth) presents a hair-raising murder mystery of do or dye…Helen Hawthorne’s latest dead-end job is in Miguel Angel’s Fort Lauderdale hair salon, where a trim can cost as much as a car payment and a blowout can wipe you out. But when one of the salon’s most famous clients, gossip blogger and cable-TV show host Kingman “King” Oden is murdered at his own wedding, things get a little hairy and King becomes the prime suspect. To save her boss—and her job— Helen is determined to find the murderer. When she finds herself the target of threatening notes, it’s more imperative than ever that she figure out who at the wedding was dressed to kill.

Killer Cuts

Center Point Pub

<p>A Deal With the Devil is the first collection of short stories by one of today s favorite writers of mystery novels and short stories. The stories in A Deal With the Devils show how even the most mundane things can lead to a whirl of mystery a randy husband, a bingo game on a cruise liner, an ugly bridesmaid dress, a husband jogging with a startlingly beautiful trainer (a dangerous situation at the best of times), and Satan ready to take over people s lives. Viets is the creator of several popular detectives reporter Francesca Vierling, Dead-End Jobs worker Helen Hawthorne, Death Investigator Angela Richman, and Mystery Shopper Josie Marcus. This collection includes two stories in the Dead-End Jobs series and one each about Francesca Vierling and Angela Richman. Two of the stories received Best Short Story Mystery Awards, the Anthony for Red Meat and the Agatha for Wedding Knife. Introduction and prefaces to each story by the author and including a complete Elaine Viets bibliography. Cover design by Gail Cross</p>

Deal With the Devil

Crippen & Landru

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Shop Till You Drop: A Dead-End Job Mystery

Accessory to Murder

Dying To Call You: A Dead-End Job Mystery

Fire and Ashes (Angela Richman, Death Investigator, 2)

Killer Cuts

Deal With the Devil

Deal With the Devil