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Dating Is Murder

by Harley Jane Kozak

ISBN: 0385510349
ISBN-13: 9780385510349
Format: Hardcover

Summary

This sequel to DATING DEAD MEN by actress Harley Jane Kozak brings back protagonist Wollstonecroft "Wollie" Shelley, a financially strapped greeting-card artist who's looking for love in all the wrong places. This time, it's on a reality show, BIOLOGICAL CLOCK, where Wollie is competing to be named as one-half of the couple most likely to be the best parents. In the meantime, Wollie's math tutor, Annika, vanishes. When it seems like the law is not doing enough to find the woman, Wollie takes it upon herself to look for Annika, which puts Wollie into danger...and squarely into the path of a gorgeous FBI agent.

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"The pace of this quirky cool mystery never falters, and the breezy characterizations will inspire more than a few to ask the author, `So, you gonna play Wollie in the film or what?'" (starred review)

-- Publishers Weekly

"Wollie Shelley is big-chested, big-hearted, and just as big a smash here as in her debut....Lively prose, seamless plotting-and good golly, there's Wollie." (starred review)

-- Kirkus

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Published date: 2005
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.75 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.4 pounds
Pages: 342

Publisher's Notes

Wollie Shelley is a greeting card artist struggling to keep afloat financially and to pursue—despite a series of recent disasters—the search for the love of her life. She reluctantly agrees to be a contestant on the reality television show Biological Clock. The show’s premise: six eligible singles date each other, and the audience votes on which couple would make the best parents. Alas, Wollie isn’t having much luck finding a man she’d like to date “off the air,” much less father her child. As the biological clock ticks away, Wollie gets caught up in a much more pressing demand on her time. Her friend Annika has vanished into thin air and Wollie is convinced that she’s in grave danger.

When Wollie reports the disappearance to the Los Angeles Police Department, however, the detective assigned to the case seems more interested in dating Wollie than in finding her friend. So Wollie springs into action—and lands right in the middle of an FBI investigation into an international drug cartel. She soon finds herself being stalked by an assortment of threatening characters, including her fellow television contestants, who will stop at nothing to beat the clock.

“Kozak has struck gold first time out with a wacky, high-octane plot and characters to match,” Publishers Weekly declared in their enthusiastic review of Dating Dead Men. With DATING IS MURDER, Kozak delivers another sparkling treasure, a laugh-out-loud funny, literate mystery for readers of Janet Evanovich and Sue Grafton, and for Kozak’s own growing legion of fans.

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