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

Just Murdered
by Elaine Viets

Helen Hawthorne is on the run, trying to stay one step ahead of her past—and one paycheck ahead of disaster. To make it, she jumps from one dead-end job to another. Luckily, she's got a lot of talents—including 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 weapon—a wedding dress—she 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 quick—and make sure Kiki's funeral outfit doesn't clash with the groom's mother's...

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Elaine Viets' Bio

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.