Murder with Reservations: A Dead End Jobs Mystery

Written by Elaine Viets

Narrated by Sarah Pesek

Still on the run from the long arm of the law, Helen Hawthorne has found employment as a maid at Fort Lauderdale’s Full Moon Hotel, picking up after clueless tourists and keeping her head down. But staying discreet gets a bit more difficult when Helen opens the hotel Dumpster and discovers the dead body of a fellow hotel employee. Then, a hotel guest is murdered in the shower, and Helen’s no-good ex-husband Rob arrives in town in search of the money the court said he deserves.

With the police already suspicious, and her friends frantically trying to keep Rob off her trail, Helen knows the only way clean up the mess is to find the killer. But if she’s not careful, the killer just might find her first…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Everand Productions
• Release date: Jan 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781094438658

Elaine Viets

Elaine Viets has written 33 mysteries in four series: the bestselling Dead-End Job series with South Florida PI Helen Hawthorne, the cozy Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper mysteries, and the dark Francesca Vierling mysteries. With the Angela Richman Death Investigator series, Elaine returns to her hardboiled roots and uses her experience as a stroke survivor and her studies at the Medicolegal Death Investigators Training Course. Elaine was a director at large for the Mystery Writers of America. She's a frequent contributor to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and anthologies edited by Charlaine Harris and Lawrence Block. Elaine won the Anthony, Agatha and Lefty Awards.

Reviews for Murder with Reservations

[Heidi Caldwell Ortega · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Way more sexy time than any of the others. I hope it's not a trend :( I have liked that these were family friendly

[Hannah Medrow · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The characters and the stories in this series are good, but the main character's preoccupation with sex and men's bodies gets tedious. Even once she's in a relationship she sounds like a teen with a celebrity crush. Maybe the target readers for these books enjoy that, but it's predictable and annoying.