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Also by Jo Dereske:

Index to Murder, May 2008
Mass Market Paperback
Catalogue of Death, April 2007
Paperback
Miss Zukas and the Stroke of Death, December 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Bookmarked to Die, June 2006
Paperback
Glom Gloom, February 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Miss Zukas Shelves the Evidence, February 2001
Paperback
Miss Zukas in Death's Shadow, December 1999
Paperback
Final Notice, November 1998
Paperback
Short Cut, June 1998
Paperback
Cut and Dry, September 1997
Paperback
Out of Circulation, July 1997
Paperback
Miss Zukas and the Raven's Dance, November 1996
Paperback
Savage Cut, September 1996
Paperback
Miss Zukas and the Island Murders, April 1995
Paperback
Miss Zukas and the Library Murders, March 1994
Paperback (reprint)

MISS ZUKAS IN DEATH'S SHADOW
By: Jo Dereske

Miss Zukas Series, #7
Avon
December 1999
On Sale: December 1, 1999
Featuring: Helma Zukas
224 pages
ISBN: 0380804727
EAN: 9780380804726
Paperback
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Mystery Cozy | Mystery Woman Sleuth

With an audit going on at Bellehaven’s Public Library, it couldn’t be a worse time for librarian Helma Zukas to be serving a sentence of fifty hours of community serive. Mut Miss Zukas stubbornly refused to pay what she thought to be an unjust traffic fine and now she’s doing time at the Promise Mission for Homeless Men – ladling soup and clearing tables for a motley group of ungrateful down-and- outers. When Helma discovers there’s a rash of thefts going on at the mission, she’s appalled. Add to that. The unannounced visit of a high school flame who intends to win her hand and Helma’s ready to run to the auditors for relief.

But none of tat can compare to the shock when, during the first night of her service, a body is found just outside the mission’s back door. Suddenly in the wake of a heartless homicide, Helma becomes one of the suspects, and her fifty hours of service are looming like a life sentence. Fortunately for the otherwise law-abiding librarian, her gaudy, bawdy good friend Ruth is close at hand to help her solve the case…before she ends up doing hard time in a much worse place than the mission house.