Elaine Viets here. I used to write for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I now live in Fort Lauderdale and come back to St. Louis several times a year.
I know the city's media reads your St. Louis Media Info & News and wanted to give you an update.
I'm currently writing two bestselling mystery series. My latest, "Half-Price Homicide," got a favorable review by Marilyn Stasio in the New York Times and a starred review in Publisher's Weekly.
I've attached a copy of the Stasio review.
HALF-PRICE HOMICIDE
A Dead-End Job Mystery
by Elaine Viets
Marilyn Stasio of The New York Times called Elaine Viets’ mysteries “clever.” Charlaine “True Blood” Harris said her Dead-End Job series has “a stubborn and intelligent heroine, a wonderful South Florida setting, and a cast of more or less lethal bimbos . . . .”
In “Half-Price Homicide,” the ninth mystery in Elaine Viets’ national bestselling Dead-End Job series, her heroine, Helen Hawthorne, is still on the run from her ex-husband. Helen works at a consignment shop where the designer duds are to die for – literally. Helen wants to return to St. Louis and clear her name so she can marry the man she loves. But first, she has to deal with secondhand clothes and first-degree murder.
Elaine and Helen Hawthorne both work the same Dead-End Jobs for this critically acclaimed series. For “Half-Price Homicide,” Elaine did her research at a designer consignment shop in Fort Lauderdale.
Elaine has worked in a dress shop (“Shop Till You Drop”), a bookstore (“Murder between the Covers”), as a telemarketer selling septic-tank cleaner (“Dying to Call You”), in a bridal shop (“Just Murdered”), a dog boutique (“Murder Unleashed”), and at a country club (“Clubbed to Death”). She made 38 rooms, 17 toilets and the honeymoon Jacuzzi each day for “Murder with Reservations” and did her research at an exclusive South Florida hair salon for “Killer Cuts.”
Elaine Viets has won the Anthony and Agatha Awards, as well as the 2008 Lefty Award for the funniest novel, “Murder with Reservations.” Elaine is a St. Louis native, a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism (BJ ’72), a former newspaper reporter, and a syndicated columnist for United Media in New York. She won two Emmys for her prime-time TV show in St. Louis. Elaine lives with her husband, Don Crinklaw, in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
HALF-PRICE HOMICIDE: a Dead-End Job Mystery by Elaine Viets
Obsidian Hardcover
May 4, 2010; $22.50; 978-0-451-22989-2
