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MYSTERY SPICED WITH GOSSIP, Jun 25 2004
Following the popular This Pen For Hire television comedy writer Laura Levine is back with her fourth Jaime Austen mystery. Levine's pen is as witty, winsome, and wicked as ever - perhaps more so as Jaime gets up close to the swells in Beverly Hills. Jaime is offered a job as a ghostwriter for one of the ritziest and richest, socialite SueEllen Kingsley who want to put out a book of social tips. Jaime isn't too excited about this task but the pay is great, and she does have to keep body and soul together. The body is often kept together with Ben & Jerry's, but that's another story. Married to a plastic surgeon, SueEllen does her dictating from a mountain of bubbles in her exquisite tub, and has little time for her reticent, chubby stepdaughter, Heidi. She's not a woman Jaime would choose for a gal pal, but the opportunity is there to learn all about the amorous exploits of the wealthy. There's a great deal more going on in L.A. than the Times reports, and Jaime is privy to it. True, SueEllen spends a lot of time in the tub but it's usually sitting up, not face down. She's found unbreathing among the bubble, apparently electrocuted by her blow dryer. Who would have done this to such a charming, convivial lady? Heidi is, of course a suspect. But, she's not alone. There is also a bevy of blondes with motives as obvious as their dye jobs: a masseuse who offered services other than massage, a green-eyed with envy nurse, a once-upon-a-time game show hostess, and one more surprising blonde person. Jaime turns to her detective roots to find the real killer and exonerate Heidi. Mystery mixed with gossip - what fun reading! - Gail Cooke
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MYSTERY MIXED WITH GOSSIP - A FUN READ!, May 10 2004
Following the popular This Pen For Hire television comedy writer Laura Levine is back with her fourth Jaime Austen mystery. Levine's pen is as witty, winsome, and wicked as ever - perhaps more so as Jaime gets up close to the swells in Beverly Hills.
Jaime is offered a job as a ghostwriter for one of the ritziest and richest, socialite SueEllen Kingsley who want to put out a book of social tips. Jaime isn't too excited about this task but the pay is great, and she does have to keep body and soul together. The body is often kept together with Ben & Jerry's, but that's another story.
Married to a plastic surgeon, SueEllen does her dictating from a mountain of bubbles in her exquisite tub, and has little time for her reticent, chubby stepdaughter, Heidi. She's not a woman Jaime would choose for a gal pal, but the opportunity is there to learn all about the amorous exploits of the wealthy. There's a great deal more going on in L.A. than the Times reports, and Jaime is privy to it.
True, SueEllen spends a lot of time in the tub but it's usually sitting up, not face down. She's found unbreathing among the bubble, apparently electrocuted by her blow dryer. Who would have done this to such a charming, convivial lady? Heidi is, of course a suspect. But, she's not alone. There is also a bevy of blondes with motives as obvious as their dye jobs: a masseuse who offered services other than massage, a green-eyed with envy nurse, a once-upon-a-time game show hostess, and one more surprising blonde person.
Jaime turns to her detective roots to find the real killer and exonerate Heidi.
Mystery mixed with gossip - what fun reading!
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by Laura Levine
by Laura Levine
by Laura Levine
by Laura Levine
by Laura Levine
