Murder With Reservations
Elaine Viets

First Time in Paperback

Living life on the lam and working wherever she can find a paycheck, Helen Hawthorne has a knack for keeping a low profile. But when her co-worker dies, and her two-timing ex-husband tracks her down in South Florida, it's going to get a lot harder to fly under the radar...

Working at Sybil's Full Moon Hotel in Fort Lauderdale keeps Helen both financially and physically fit. But cleaning up after hotel guests is not like cleaning a house—it's like cleaning fifteen houses in a single day. Not to mention the dreaded 323, the hotel's most notorious room. The guests in 323 are always drunk, loud, and rude—and, worst of all, they never tip. When a maid goes missing the day after a disastrous mess in 323, the rest of the cleaning staff chalk it up to job burnout, and imagine that Rhonda has finally ditched the housekeeping gig to run off with the dreamy, rich boyfriend she's always talking about.

But then Rhonda turns up dead in a Dumpster, and no one feels safe and snug in South Florida—especially not Helen. Another dead body means another chance for the cops to find her. And to make matters worse, her ex-husband is hot on her trail, checking into the very hotel where she works. Sadly, the cops don't seem to care much about a murdered maid—but they have noticed there's something shady about the victim's coworker and her not-quite-truthful story. And if she doesn't manage to dodge their questions and shake off her ex, it could be checkout time for Helen...

(A Dead-End Job Mystery #6)
Obsidian, May 2008
ISBN #0451223837
288 pages Paperback
$6.99

Also by Elaine Viets:
Killer Cuts, May 2010
Half-Price Homicide, May 2010
Crimes by Moonlight, April 2010
The Fashion Hound Murders, November 2009
Clubbed To Death, May 2009
Killer Cuts, May 2009
Murder With All the Trimmings, November 2008
Clubbed to Death, May 2008
Accessory to Murder, November 2007
Murder With Reservations, May 2007
Murder Unleashed, May 2007
High Heels are Murder, November 2006
Murder Unleashed, May 2006
Dying In Style, October 2005
Show Business Is Murder, August 2005
Just Murdered, May 2005
Drop-Dead Blonde, February 2005
Dying To Call You, October 2004
Murder Between The Covers, December 2003
Shop Till You Drop, May 2003

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