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Books in Dead-End Job Mystery series

  • Catnapped!

    Elaine Viets

    Library Binding (Center Point Pub, July 1, 2014)
    No more pussyfooting around! Husband and wife PI team Helen Hawthorne and Phil Sagemont have barely scratched the surface of the world of show cats when a cornered kitty kidnapper’s claws come out. . . .
  • Pumped for Murder: A Dead-End Job Mystery

    Elaine Viets

    Hardcover (NAL Hardcover, May 3, 2011)
    The latest Dead-End Job mystery from the national bestselling author of Half-Priced Homicide. Helen Hawthorne and her new hubby Phil have opened their own P.I. agency and their very first client is Shelby, who thinks her husband is developing a killer body for another woman. To keep track of the suspected cheater, Helen gets a dead-end job at Fantastic Fitness, where she has to pump iron to stay employed. Then the budding agency takes on a murder case, and Helen has to move her workouts to the early morning just to keep up. With so much weight on her aching shoulders, will Helen catch a killer-or just drop dead from exhaustion?
  • Checked Out: A Dead-End Job Mystery

    Elaine Viets

    Library Binding (Premier Mystery Series, Oct. 1, 2015)
    Wealthy socialite Elizabeth Cateman Kingsley has hired Helen to find a missing John Singer Sargent painting, owned by her late father. After his death, many of Davis Cateman s books were donated to the Flora Park library, and his daughter suspects the small watercolor worth millions was tucked away inside one of those dusty tomes."
  • The Art of Murder

    Elaine Viets

    Library Binding (Center Point Pub, Sept. 1, 2016)
    From the national bestselling author of Checked Out, Helen Hawthorne must pose as a painter at Fort Lauderdale’s famous Bonnet House Museum to catch an artful killer . . .