Elaine Viets started working at age sixteen for minimum wage.
More than thirty years later, she is still working for minimum wage. But this time, it's for her new Dead-End Job series.
In each book, she works a different awful job. Elaine has been hung up on, cussed out and propositioned in pursuit of the worst Dead-End Job. As a telemarketer, she sold septic tank cleaner from Altoona to Altamont. As a dress store clerk, she shoehorned women into tight dresses. As a bookseller, she created long lines by jamming her cash register.
Fortunately, readers are also lining up to read about the adventures
of Helen Hawthorne in her wacky new series, set in South Florida.
Just Murdered
"Uh, oh, here comes trouble," Millicent said.
If this was trouble, Helen Hawthorne wished she had it. A Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud pulled up in front of Millicent's Bridal Salon on Las Olas Boulevard.
This was a vintage Rolls, the car of new movie stars and old money. Its long, sculpted curves were the color of well-polished family silver. The shiny new Porsches, Beemers and Ferraris on the fashionable Fort Lauderdale street looked like cheap toys next to it.
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