Once on the fast track to success, Helen Hawthorne is now going nowhere fast. She traded in her chic life for a shabby one. And now she's on the run, jumping from city to city and dead-end job to dead-end job, trying to stay one step ahead of her past...
After two weeks as the new salesclerk at Juliana's, Fort Lauderdale's ultra-exclusive clothing boutique, Helen still feels out of fashion. And since the only crime likely to be committed around here is being old-or worse, looking old-Helen figures she's safe. Until she discovers the manager has been embezzling money and selling designer drugs along with the designer clothes. Add murder to the mix-and Helen's dead-end job is downright deadly.

Shop till you Drop is the first in the Dead-End Job Mystery series. Helen Hawthrone is hiding from an ex-husband and is trying to stay under the radar. She has taken a dead end job at a fashionable clothing boutique in Fort Lauderdale. Everything is working out for her until she over hears her manager plot a murder, cook the store books, and see her selling drugs. When the manager turns up missing and later dead, Helen must find out who the murderer is and stay under the radar.

I found this book to be a really great start to a new series. Helen is a likable character and her neighbors a little off the beaten path and it makes a great story. I can't wait to read the next book in the series!

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Sent to elsi as part of the Cozy Murder Mystery Relay on bookobsessed. Enjoy!

Lovely! Thanks for sending it so quickly. I've read one other book in this series and it's definitely going to be fun to read this one.