Shop Till You Drop (original 2003; edition 2003)

by Elaine Viets

Series: A Dead-End Job Mystery (1)

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML: Once on the fast track to success, Helen Hawthorne is now going nowhere fast. She traded in her chic life for a shabby one. And now she's on the run, jumping from city to city and dead-end job to dead-end job, trying to stay one step ahead of her past... After two weeks as the new salesclerk at Juliana's, Fort Lauderdale's ultra-exclusive clothing boutique, Helen still feels out of fashion. And since the only crime likely to be committed around here is being old-or worse, looking old-Helen figures she's safe. Until she discovers the manager has been embezzling money and selling designer drugs along with the designer clothes. Add murder to the mix-and Helen's dead-end job is downright deadly. .… (more)

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Member:	grshppr215
Title:	Shop Till You Drop
Authors:	Elaine Viets
Info:	Signet (2003), Mass Market Paperback, 288 pages
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Tags:	Mystery/Suspense, Kindle, Read in 2012

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Shop Till You Drop by Elaine Viets (2003)

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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 | Feb 8, 2022 |

dead end job in dress ship, drug related murder

ritaer | Jul 9, 2021 |

Loved it! The characters, the plot, the ending, it was a good, fast read (

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MystereityReviews | Mar 11, 2016 |

Cozy mystery series featuring Helen, a woman on the run from her moocher ex-husband. She works off the books at a boutique called Julianna's, and the women there are the feature of the story, as they plot hits, plan marriages, and buy pills from the store manager. Moves a tad bit slow for my pace, with not a whole lot of immediate characterization, but it picks up as the book goes on, and the characters start to mesh better together. A good read though, and I'm very interested in the rest of the series - a funny, light mystery, just what you need sometimes. (

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papertygers | Sep 26, 2013 |

Cute cozy mystery. Mostly fluff with a few humorous moments. (

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Agatha Award (Nominee – Novel – 2003)

Lefty Award (Nominee – Humorous Mystery – 2004)

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Shop Till You Drop

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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

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For Anne Watts and Thumbs, who both enjoy curling up with a good book

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On Wednesday, Helen met a woman who could not frown.

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:

Once on the fast track to success, Helen Hawthorne is now going nowhere fast. She traded in her chic life for a shabby one. And now she's on the run, jumping from city to city and dead-end job to dead-end job, trying to stay one step ahead of her past...

After two weeks as the new salesclerk at Juliana's, Fort Lauderdale's ultra-exclusive clothing boutique, Helen still feels out of fashion. And since the only crime likely to be committed around here is being old-or worse, looking old-Helen figures she's safe. Until she discovers the manager has been embezzling money and selling designer drugs along with the designer clothes. Add murder to the mix-and Helen's dead-end job is downright deadly.

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