Murder Between the Covers: A Dead-end Job Mystery
- ISBN-10
- 1625673191
- ISBN-13
- 9781625673190
- Series
- Murder Between the Covers
- Category
- Booksellers and bookselling
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Author
- Elaine Viets
Description
From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author Elaine Viets--the thrilling mystery series about one woman trying to make a living... while other people are making a killing. Helen Hawthorne is still on the run because of her refusal to pay her worthless ex-husband alimony. But a girl's gotta eat...and pay rent, utilities, etc. So she's taken a cash-paying job at Fort Lauderdale's own Page Turners bookstore. And while the job is decent enough, the owner of the store is anything but. Page Turner III is a boor with more money than brains: he's cheating on his wife while running his family business into the ground and has a list of enemies longer than any bestseller. So when he turns up dead, no one is too surprised. What is surprising is where--in the bed of Helen's glamorous gal pal Peggy, whose usual bedmates are more cultured, refined...and still breathing. Worse still, it turns out that Peggy once had a tryst with the late Mr. Turner that ended quite badly, with a scorned Peggy promising the lothario payback--and someone is making it look like she finally collected. With Peggy as the prime suspect in a murder, it's up to Helen to prove her friend innocent before the police throw the book at her...Praise for the Dead-End Job Mysteries by Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author Elaine Viets "A stubborn and intelligent heroine, a wonderful South Florida setting, and a cast of more-or-less lethal bimbos...I loved this book."--Charlaine Harris "Brave Viets preps by actually working the jobs she describes in loving and hilarious detail, giving her offbeat series a healthy balance between the banal and the bizarre." --Kirkus Reviews "Laugh-out-loud comedy with enough twists and turns to make it to the top of the mystery bestseller charts." --Florida Today "Fans of Janet Evanovich and Parnell Hall will appreciate Viets's humor."--South Florida Sun-Sentinel "Wit, murder, and sunshine . . . it must be Florida. I love this new series."--Nancy Pickard "A heroine with a sense of humor and a gift for snappy dialogue."--Jane Heller
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