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Elaine Viets


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

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Genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Murder, Fiction


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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Average rating: 3.86 · 50,570 ratings · 3,757 reviews · 81 distinct works • Similar authors
Shop Till You Drop (Dead-En...
3.77 avg rating — 3,984 ratings — published 2003 — 19 editions
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Murder Between the Covers (...
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Dying in Style (Josie Marcu...
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Dying to Call You (Dead-End...
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Just Murdered (Dead-End Job...
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Murder Unleashed (Dead-End ...
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Clubbed to Death (Dead-End ...
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Murder with Reservations (D...
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Killer Cuts (Dead-End Job M...
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High Heels are Murder (Josi...
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Series by Elaine Viets

Shop Till You Drop Murder Between the Covers Dying to Call You Just Murdered Murder Unleashed Murder with Reservations Clubbed to Death
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Dying in Style High Heels are Murder Accessory to Murder Murder with All the Trimmings The Fashion Hound Murders An Uplifting Murder Death on a Platter
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Brain Storm Fire and Ashes A Star Is Dead Death Grip Life Without Parole Late for His Own Funeral The Dead Of Night
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3.98 avg rating — 2,304 ratings

Backstab Rubout The Pink Flamingo Murders Doc in the Box
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Quotes by Elaine Viets  (?)
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“May you live forever, and may I never die.”
― Elaine Viets, Pumped for Murder
tags: die, live, toast
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“Angela has a boyfriend. Actually, he’s a friend with benefits.”
“What’s that?” Grandma said.
“It means she likes him, and she sleeps with him sometimes when she feels like it.”
“In my day, we called that a husband,” Grandma said.”
― Elaine Viets, Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side
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“You don't get it!...I was standing right in their house, but I'm invisible. I'm the pizza dude in a polyester uniform that stinks..."

"So you're a ghost," Angela said.

"No! I'm not a ghost. A ghost used to be human. I don't exist in their world....They don't care what they say in front of me, any more than you care what you say in front of your couch. I'm not a person. I'm a thing.”
― Elaine Viets, Fire and Ashes
tags: children, fate, hate, love, parents
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