Free-lance writer Jaine Austen considers herself a part-
time, semi-professional private investigator. After all,
she's been the one to solve quite a few murders where she's
also been a suspect. Why should this new writing gig she
has be any different?
Shortly before Valentine's Day and in need of funds to pay
bills, Jaine takes a job writing an advertising brochure
and website copy for Dates of Joy, a dodgy matchmaking
business run by the pompous, chocolate-loving Joy Amoroso.
Nasty doesn't begin to describe Joy's treatment of her
employees, and Jaine soon learns the clientele doesn't
match the advertising she's been hired to write. There are
more than a few clients disgruntled with Joy's lack of
results, especially since they forked out some pretty big
bucks for her lackluster matchmaking services.
Then Joy drops dead at her Valentine's Day mixer after
eating one of her cherished chocolates. Of course, Jaine
was seen coming out of Joy's office where the chocolates
were located, so she becomes a suspect. As Jaine's neighbor
Lance so aptly laments, "Everywhere you go, dead bodies
seem to pop up. What is it with you?" To clear her name,
Jaine starts her own investigation, while also fending off
a doddering old billionaire who only has eyes for her...cat
Prozac. Life is never dull, or easy, for Jaine.
Laura Levine's KILLING CUPID is another hilarious
escapade in the life of writer Jaine Austen and her finicky
feline Prozac. Told from Jaine's point of view, the witty,
self-deprecating commentary is always a hoot as she relates
her latest exploits involving murder. As the 12th
installment of this entertaining series, KILLING CUPID is
sure to entertain readers looking for a fun mystery.
Love is in the air as freelance writer Jaine Austen begins a new job at the Dates of Joy matchmaking service--but between juggling her boss's demands, deflecting the advances of an eccentric suitor, and tracking down a calculating killer, she hardly has time to think about romance. . . When Jaine lands a job writing web copy and brochures for matchmaker Joy Amoroso, she's excited for a chance to help the lovelorn just in time for Valentine's Day--until she realizes what "Dates of Joy" is really all about. Joy is a ruthless taskmaster who screams at her employees for the smallest infractions, pads her website with pictures of professional models posing as clients, and offers up convincing but empty promises of love in exchange for inordinate sums of money. And woe betide anyone who lays a finger on her heavily guarded stash of chocolates. So it's no surprise when the chiseling cupid turns up dead at a Valentine's Day mixer. Aghast to find herself on the cops' suspect list, Jaine sets out to track down the killer. Who could it be? Joy's harried assistants, whose lives she made a living hell? Her younger lover? The handsome hunk of a client with a secret in his past? Or the furious Beverly Hills widow who forked over the last of her savings for a Prince Charming who never materialized? Joy left behind a slew of enemies struck by her deviant arrows, so finding the culprit may prove harder than spotting that elusive caramel praline in a box of chocolates--and Jaine will have to flirt with danger to get to the truth...
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