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Summary: GREAT SHOP NO DROP
Review: ...Because I found this to be a literate and FUNNY mystery that appealed to both my wife and myself. It's a great and fun read and there is a very good reason I have already seen so many FIVE STAR reviews on SHOP TILL YOU DROP. Can't wait for the next one already advertised as MURDER BETWEEEN THE COVERS.
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Summary: No mystery about it...
Review: A terribly dull, disappointing plot with a main character who doesn't seem very bright. Why is she on the run when a good lawyer could solve her problems back home very simply? Why does she make silly decisions when she knows she's in danger? The ending was also flat and unsuspenseful.
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Summary: electrifying Dead-End Jobs mystery
Review: After hearing the judge's ruling in a St. Louis Courtroom, Helen Hawthorne goes on the run, leaving a job that pays six figures annum and her family and friends behind. She ends up in Fort Lauderdale working in sales in the exclusive female clothes store Juliana's, earning minimum wage off the books. The clientele consists of trophy wives and men's mistresses who have nothing better to do than shop until they drop. After two weeks on the job, Helen comes to believe that her boss is skimming money, selling illegal drugs, arranging for illegal plastic surgery and hiring a hit man for a customer.Before Helen can decide what to do about what she thinks is going on, Christina takes off on a vacation and never comes back. Her body is found in a barrel floating in the ocean and Helen soon has proof that her former boss was blackmailing five customers and her ex-boyfriend. When Helen tries to solve the crime and collect the reward money, the killer decides to make Helen the second victim. The first Dead-End Jobs mystery is such a smashing success it will provide long-term job security for Elaine Viets. The tale contains wit, local color and a cast of secondary characters that is eccentric and funny. The heroine is a delightful mix of grit; determination and stubbornness, which is why she goes from one deadly encounter to another. She doesn't know the meaning of the word quit and she hounds all the suspects until one of them finally makes a move on her. Elaine Viets' SHOP TILL YOU DROP is electrifying. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: No mystery about it...
Review: Although I read SHOP TILL YOU DROP a while ago, I find myself still recommending it to my friends and being able to vividly remember the book. Just like DOC IN THE BOX and other Viets' treasures, her books stay with me unlike so many others that are read and quickly forgotten.
I love this new series and look forward to the next. You can count on Elaine Viets to provide not just entertainment, witty as it may be, but also insights and interesting information to make you think.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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Summary: Still talking about this book.
Review: Although I read SHOP TILL YOU DROP a while ago, I find myself still recommending it to my friends and being able to vividly remember the book. Just like DOC IN THE BOX and other Viets' treasures, her books stay with me unlike so many others that are read and quickly forgotten.
I love this new series and look forward to the next. You can count on Elaine Viets to provide not just entertainment, witty as it may be, but also insights and interesting information to make you think.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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Summary: Fun & Mayhem in Ft Lauderdale
Review: As a long-time resident of the Ft. Lauderdale area I thouroughly enjoyed Ms. Viets' landmarks and accurate descriptions, not to mention the characters! As anyone who lives here knows, there are MANY characters just like the ones in the book! What a great change-of-pace to be able to read a murder mystery and have fun and laughs at the same time! Ms. Viets does an excellent job of combining all those elements into a book that should be on the best seller list!
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Summary: Laughed Til I Dropped!
Review: As a longtime fan of Elaine Viets, any new book is a cause for rejoicing. Shop TIl You Drop, the first entry in her Dead End Jobs series, is classic Viets. Witty, well observed and right on target. Helen, on the lam from an alimony sucking ex-husband finds herself in Florida, a shopgirl waiting on the mistresses and trophy wives of some very noveau, very dubious men. When murder ensues, Viet's trademark mayhem and merriment ensue. This series, with lots of great characters and a steamy Florida background, promises to be a real winner. More! More!
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Summary: Five Stars??? Of course! Six...if it were an option.
Review: Elaine Viets is a very funny writer who doesn't let humor overpower the story or characters. She has that slant on life that allows the ordinary make the reader laugh and the outrageous behavior send us into stitches. But she also lets us see the emptiness of those ladies who think they can never be too thin or too rich. Their goal is to get a wealthy man even if it means resorting to, often dangerous, cosmetic surgery and diet plans.
The "Dead End Job" series features Helen who flees St. Louis and goes into hiding after a particularly nasty confrontation with her sleazeball of a parasitic husband. She is ordered to pay him half of her 6 figure salary. Instead she changes her name and goes to Fort Lauderdale with a smallish nest egg and a search for jobs that don't require such things as SS numbers and will pay cash.
Her job at an exclusive dress shop (the manager keeps the door locked and only lets those in whom she deems worthy) is the first thing she can land.
Helen has her suspicions about blackmail and drug sales. When the manager disappears it seems that Juliana's is handling more than expensive clothes for the ultra rich.
South Florida and its inhabitants are a big part of the plot.
SHOP TILL YOU DROP is amusing, touching and current. Highly recommended and would make a great gift for any friends who are shopaholics or like to read a good book that has some real meat beneath the light surface.
I will be eagerly awaiting the second in the series in which Helen gets a job at a chain bookstore.
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Summary: Five Stars??? Of course! Six...if it were an option.
Review: Elaine Viets is a very funny writer who doesn't let humor overpower the story or characters. She has that slant on life that allows the ordinary make the reader laugh and the outrageous behavior send us into stitches. But she also lets us see the emptiness of those ladies who think they can never be too thin or too rich. Their goal is to get a wealthy man even if it means resorting to, often dangerous, cosmetic surgery and diet plans.
The "Dead End Job" series features Helen who flees St. Louis and goes into hiding after a particularly nasty confrontation with her sleazeball of a parasitic husband. She is ordered to pay him half of her 6 figure salary. Instead she changes her name and goes to Fort Lauderdale with a smallish nest egg and a search for jobs that don't require such things as SS numbers and will pay cash.
Her job at an exclusive dress shop (the manager keeps the door locked and only lets those in whom she deems worthy) is the first thing she can land.
Helen has her suspicions about blackmail and drug sales. When the manager disappears it seems that Juliana's is handling more than expensive clothes for the ultra rich.
South Florida and its inhabitants are a big part of the plot.
SHOP TILL YOU DROP is amusing, touching and current. Highly recommended and would make a great gift for any friends who are shopaholics or like to read a good book that has some real meat beneath the light surface.
I will be eagerly awaiting the second in the series in which Helen gets a job at a chain bookstore.
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Summary: Viets has South Beach pegged!
Review: Elaine Viets' character can see what's making people tick and still find humor in any situation, from facelifts to how a man really feels about the paint job on his car!
Always enough twists in the plot to keep you guessing til the end. I'm looking forward to the next Dead End job!
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