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Shop Till You Drop: A Dead-End Job Mystery

By: Elaine Viets
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN: 0451208552
ISBN-13: 9780451208552
Released: 04 Apr 2003
RRP: £4.55
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Not What It Was Cracked Up To Be - By: Mark Baker, 07 Jan 2004
Helen is hiding out from the law & taking any job she can that will pay her under the table. Her first job is at an exclusive clothing store that caters to the highly fashionable of South Florida. Just when she decides her boss is doing some illegal stuff, she vanishes, only to turn up dead. Can Helen find the killer before her past comes out?

The book is advertised as a humorous mystery, but I only laughed on the last page. Not because it was over, but because I finallly found something truly funny. I think part of the problem is that the narration often seemed more detached then it should have been. The story was interesting & I liked the character even if I thought Helen's reason for being on the run was rather stupid.

I'll most likely give the series another chance, but this book didn't live up to my expectations.