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Elaine Viets

Author of Shop Till You Drop

55+ Works 4,055 Members 124 Reviews 10 Favorited

About the Author

Before becoming a full-time author, Elaine Viets worked in the field of journalism. She is the author of the Dead-End Job Mystery series; the Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper series; and the Francesca Vierling Mystery series. Her short story Wedding Knife, which appeared in Chesapeake Crimes, won both show more the Agatha and the Anthony Awards. Viets resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series

Works by Elaine Viets

Shop Till You Drop (2003) 434 copies
Murder Between the Covers (2003) 317 copies
Dying to Call You (2004) 263 copies
Dying in Style (2005) 255 copies
Murder Unleashed (2006) 235 copies
Just Murdered (2005) 231 copies
Murder with Reservations (2007) 221 copies
Clubbed to Death (2008) 181 copies
High Heels Are Murder (2006) 172 copies
Accessory to Murder (2007) 160 copies
Killer Cuts (2009) 143 copies
Half-Price Homicide (2010) 113 copies
Pumped For Murder (1964) 91 copies
Final Sail (2012) 89 copies
The Fashion Hound Murders (2009) 87 copies
Checked Out (2015) 80 copies
Board Stiff (2013) 77 copies
Catnapped! (2014) 77 copies
An Uplifting Murder (2010) 69 copies
Death on a Platter (2011) 67 copies
The Art of Murder (2016) 64 copies
The Pink Flamingo Murders (1999) 52 copies
BackStab (1997) 52 copies
Murder Is a Piece of Cake (2012) 48 copies
Fixing to Die (2013) 41 copies
Rubout (1998) 34 copies
Brain Storm (2016) 34 copies
A Dog Gone Murder (2014) 33 copies
Doc in the Box (2000) 29 copies
Fire and Ashes (2017) 24 copies
Killer Blonde (2014) 11 copies
A Star Is Dead (2020) 10 copies
Ice Blonde (2018) 9 copies
Death Grip (2021) 6 copies
Deal With the Devil (2018) 5 copies
Censored Viets (1998) 2 copies

Associated Works

Many Bloody Returns: Tales of Birthdays With Bite (2007) — Contributor — 1,389 copies
Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side (2010) — Contributor — 323 copies
Drop-Dead Blonde (Anthology 4-in-1) (2005) — Contributor — 112 copies
The Customer Is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles (2008) — Contributor — 103 copies
Blood on Their Hands (2003) — Contributor — 46 copies
Chesapeake Crimes (2004) — Contributor — 34 copies
Vampires in Love: Stories with a Bite (2010) — Contributor — 29 copies
Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey (2014) — Contributor — 17 copies
Happy Homicides 2: Thirteen Cozy Mysteries (2016) — Contributor — 13 copies
Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder! (2012) — Foreword — 12 copies

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Birthdate
1950
Gender
female
Nationality
USA
Places of residence
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Members

Reviews

Great idea for a book title each short story from a Jimmy Buffett song title.
Some of the stories are better than others Truck stop salvation, and Smart Woman in a Really Short Skirt, were both great. And some stories also stick to the storyline or loosely to what the song is about
Pascagoula Run and Who’s the Blonde Stranger.
Anyway a fun easy read.
 
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zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |
When I read the Dead End Job mystery series, I feel like I've taken a mini-vacation to south Florida. This was especially enjoyable during a recent stretch of bitter cold winter days. In Catnapped! Helen and Phil suddenly have two crimes to solve. The clock starts ticking on the chance to solve a murder. And there are lots of cats.
 
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Catherine_Dilts | 6 other reviews | Feb 25, 2022 |
I'm not a big mystery lover, but this was closer to a cozy chick lit mystery rather than a hard boiled mystery.

After reading this book, I'm considering reading another mystery either a dead-end job mystery or a Sarah Stohmeyer mystery.
 
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AngelaLam | 14 other reviews | Feb 8, 2022 |
Meh. The style of writing is fine, sometimes amusing in a snarky manner. And some were beyond stupid and good taste- as in the character who never wears undies and has a wax job in the shape of a dollar sign. Please. Not funny. Just gross. I found the main character irritating because she couldn't make up her mind about anything- her love interest, her job, even who the murderer was. A good portion of the end of the book was madly whirling among a half dozen suspects with not enough information for the intelligent reader, much less the main character, to get any inkling of the truth. For a "light-hearted"'mystery, the denouement was a bit gory. Don't think I'll pursue this series.… (more)
 
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PattyLee | 2 other reviews | Dec 14, 2021 |

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Statistics

Works
55
Also by
10
Members
4,055
Popularity
#6,208
Rating
½ 3.6
Reviews
124
ISBNs
207
Favorited
10

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