Half-Price Homicide: A Dead-End Job Mystery - Softcover

Viets, Elaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451231546 ISBN 13: 9780451231543

Publisher: Berkley, 2011

Synopsis

At the high-end designer consignment shop Snapdragon, Helen Hawthorne must cater to the whims of snobby-yet-frugal customers like Chrissy, who comes in to sell a purse and ends up causing a scene. But when Chrissy is found dead in a dressing room with a hand-painted scarf around her neck, Helen goes from being low on society's totem pole to high on the police's suspect list.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

At Snapdragon, a posh consignment shop, Helen is at the beck and call of snobbish, yet frugal, customers, and the sellers of the drool-worthy fashions can be even more high maintenance -- especially Chrissy, who walks in with a purse to sell and ends up screaming at her husband and another customer.

Helen is used to dealing with difficult clients, controlling husbands, and fashionable politicians, but she's about to handle a brand new type of unsatisfied customer when Chrissy is found dead in Snapdragon's dressing room with a hand-painted scarf that Helen had just been holding tied around her neck. Helen has now gone from the low end of society's totem pole to the high end of the police suspect list.

About the Author:

Elaine Viets has actually worked those dead-end jobs in her mystery novels,just like her character, Helen Hawthorne. Over the years, Elaine has been a dress store clerk, phone book proofreader, babysitter, telemarketer, bookseller, and weed puller at fifty cents a bucket.  She is also the author of the Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper series and numerous short stories. Elaine has won an Anthony Award and an Agatha Award. She lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with her husband, author and actor Don Crinklaw.  Please visit her blog: The Lipstick Chronicles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0451231546
• ISBN 13: 9780451231543
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288