title: Pumped for Murder: A Dead-End Job Mystery
author:  Elaine Viets 
description: Elaine Viets has actually worked those dead-end jobs in her mystery novels,<b>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.</b>
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  Praise for the Dead-End Job Mysteries by Elaine Viets, Winner of the Anthony
  Award and the Agatha Award
  
  
  
  
  
  “Brave Viets preps by actually working the jobs she describes in loving and
  hilarious detail, giving her offbeat series a healthy balance between the
  banal and the bizarre.” —Kirkus Reviews
  
  
  
  
  
  “Elaine Viets is fabulous. I fell in love with her dead-on funny Dead-End Job
  mysteries, and so will you.” —Jerrilyn Farmer, author of Desperately Seeking
  Sushi
  
  
  
  
  
  “Laugh-out-loud comedy with enough twists and turns to make it to the top of
  the mystery bestseller charts.”
  
  
  
  
  
  —Florida Today
  
  
  
  
  
  “Fans of Janet Evanovich and Parnell Hall will appreciate Viets’s humor.”
  —South Florida Sun-Sentinel
  
  
  
  
  
  “Elaine Viets knows how to turn minimum wage into maximum hilarity.With such a
  fast-paced story and nonstop wisecracks, never has a dead-end job sounded so
  downright funny!” —Nancy Martin, author of
  
  
  
  
  
  Murder Melts in Your Mouth
  
  
  
  
  
  “Wit, murder, and sunshine … it must be Florida