Elaine Viets

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born

January 01, 1950 in St. Louis, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.elaineviets.com/pages/bio.asp

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Murder, Fiction

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As a young girl, Elaine Viets was taught the virtues of South St. Louis: the importance of hard work, housecleaning, and paying cash. She managed to forget almost everything she learned, which is why she turned to mystery writing.

Living in South Florida has not improved her character. But it has given her the bestselling Dead-End Job series. Like her amateur detective, Helen Hawthorne, Elaine actually works those rotten jobs. Perhaps her early training has given her a lifelong fascination with jobs. She and Helen both know working for a living can be murder.

To research her novels, Elaine has been everything from a salesclerk to a survey taker. Her first book in the series is SHOP TILL YOU DROP, a novel of sex, murder and plastic surgery. It...more

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Books by Elaine Viets

Average rating: 3.64 · 13,350 ratings · 1,101 reviews · 39 distinct works

	Shop Till You Drop (Dead-End Job Mystery, #1) 3.65 avg rating — 912 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Murder Between the Covers (Dead-End Job Mystery, #2) 3.71 avg rating — 534 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Dying in Style (Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper, #1) 3.58 avg rating — 506 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Dying to Call You (Dead-End Job Mystery, #3) 3.74 avg rating — 489 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Just Murdered (Dead-End Job Mystery, #4) 3.73 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Murder with Reservations (Dead-End Job Mystery, #6) 3.74 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Murder Unleashed (Dead-End Job Mystery, #5) 3.71 avg rating — 425 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Clubbed to Death (Dead-End Job Mystery, #7) 3.69 avg rating — 403 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	My rating:
	High Heels are Murder (Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper, #2) 3.73 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Killer Cuts (Dead-End Job Mystery, #8) 3.67 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	My rating:

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Series by Elaine Viets

A Dead-End Job Mystery (10 books)
by Elaine Viets

3.69 avg rating — 4,413 ratings

Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper (7 books)
by Elaine Viets

3.64 avg rating — 1,873 ratings

Francesca Vierling Mystery (4 books)
by Elaine Viets

3.73 avg rating — 162 ratings

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