Murder with All the Trimmings: Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper - Softcover

Viets, Elaine

3.8

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9780451225481: Murder with All the Trimmings: Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451225481 ISBN 13: 9780451225481

Publisher: Berkley, 2008

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A humbug of a Shopping mystery...

From The Anthony and Agatha Award-Winning Author of Accessory to Murder

Includes insider shopping tips!

Mystery shopper Josie Marcus doesn?t get the appeal of the year-round Christmas shop. But when three such holiday houses pop up within two blocks, she?s assigned to rate them anonymously.

Easy enough, Josie thinks, until she realizes that shoppers at one store are finding a strange?even deadly?secret ingredient in their holiday cake. And Josie must get to the bottom of it all before someone else becomes a Christmas spirit.

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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.

Review:

"Viets spans the female psyche with panache and wit."

"Effectively portrays a single mom earnestly navigating her way in today's uncertain world."

"Laugh-out-loud comedic murder mystery guaranteed to keep you entertained for any number of hours--the perfect read for a rainy day."

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