Just Murdered
A Dead-End Job Mystery
by Elaine Viets
Signet
Mystery, Literature and Fiction: Chick Lit
May 3, 2005
ISBN-13: 0451214927
Available in: Paperback
Helen Hawthorne is on the run, trying to stay one step ahead of her pastand one paycheck ahead of disaster. To make it, she jumps from one dead-end job to another. Luckily, she's got a lot of talentsincluding one for detection...
When Helen Hawthorne takes a job at the upscale Millicent's Bridal Salon, she expects to see some sentimental tears as brides pick out their gowns. But when a rich, obnoxious mother-of-the-bride named Kiki is killed, it seems most of the tears are fake. When Helen's fingerprints are found on the murder weapona wedding dressshe must solve the case to prove her innocence. Is the murderer Kiki's money-strapped ex-husband? The bride who finally got tired of letting Mom run the show? The groom whose career is about to be ruined? Or one of the numerous boy toys promised a million dollars in the will? Helen better find out quickand make sure Kiki's funeral outfit doesn't clash with the groom's mother's...
Elaine Viets actually works the same dead-end jobs as her character, Helen Hawthorne. She has been a dress shop clerk, bookseller and a telemarketer who called you at dinner time. You probably hung up on her. MURDER BETWEEN THE COVERS is the second book in the Dead- End Job series. She and Helen have a real future working jobs that go nowhere. Elaine has just signed a contract for three more books.
She lives in South Florida with her husband, Don Crinklaw. They collect parking tickets.