Murder Between the Covers, Elaine Viets
Murder Between the Covers, Elaine Viets
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Murder Between the Covers

Author: Elaine Viets

Narrator: Sarah Pesek

Unabridged: 8 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/29/2021


Synopsis

From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author Elaine Viets—the thrilling mystery series about one woman trying to make a living... while other people are making a killing.

Helen Hawthorne is still on the run because of her refusal to pay her worthless ex-husband alimony. But a girl’s gotta eat…and pay rent, utilities, etc. So she’s taken a cash-paying job at Fort Lauderdale’s own Page Turners bookstore. And while the job is decent enough, the owner of the store is anything but.

Page Turner III is a boor with more money than brains: he’s cheating on his wife while running his family business into the ground and has a list of enemies longer than any bestseller. So when he turns up dead, no one is too surprised. What is surprising is where—in the bed of Helen’s glamorous gal pal Peggy, whose usual bedmates are more cultured, refined…and still breathing.

Worse still, it turns out that Peggy once had a tryst with the late Mr. Turner that ended quite badly, with a scorned Peggy promising the lothario payback—and someone is making it look like she finally collected. With Peggy as the prime suspect in a murder, it’s up to Helen to prove her friend innocent before the police throw the book at her…


About Elaine Viets

Elaine Viets has written over thirty mysteries among four series. A former director-at-large for the Mystery Writers of America, she is a frequent contributor to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and anthologies edited by Charlaine Harris and Lawrence Block.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Luffy Sempai on April 26, 2020

This was a throwback to the Golden age of Goodreads for me, when I would rate most books 5 stars. The Camel Club, Lucy Stone, Jaine Austen, all series that got 4 or 5 stars from me, week in week out. Murder between the Covers is like eating Cinnamon Babka that has neither phlegm nor hair on it. It's......more

Goodreads review by Linda on April 06, 2017

3.5 stars. I haven't read this series in order so I've read book after this, which made it fun to go back and read one towards the beginning. I liked the bookstore setting. I followed all the red herrings along with Helen and was surprised at the outcome. Fun story.......more

Goodreads review by Mailis on June 10, 2013

Poor Helen seems to meet all the nastiest and sleaziest men on earth while working on simple blue collar jobs that aren't actually that easy when you go behind the scenes. In her place I'd probably go back to my well paying job, gather some money, sue the son of a bitch ex-husband, make the facts pub......more

Goodreads review by Elena on May 24, 2022

Though I've enjoyed most of the books in the series, this one was just average. I wanted more from the bookstore setting. And it really bothered me that the owner of the store was (how to say it) not a good person. It's not fair not to give a book a better rating based on that one thing but I couldn......more

Goodreads review by Denise on April 29, 2013

The bookstore details are spot-on: the customer who doesn't know the author or title but the book is blue, the Bible as most shoplifted book, the neverending slush piles, the kids destroying the children's section while the moms ignore them, the customer who shows up every day to read, the manager(o......more