Dying to Call You

    A Dead-End Job Mystery

    by Elaine Viets

    Signet

    October 5, 2004

    ISBN-13: 0451213327

    Available in: Paperback

    Dying to Call You
    by Elaine Viets

    Once on the fast track to success, Helen Hawthorne is going nowhere faster. Forced to trade in her chic life for a shabby one, she's now 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...

    Helen Hawthorne has just found her new calling...as a telemarketer. And it's not long before she's disrupting dinners all over the country with her pesky calls. But during a phone survey to the home of Henry Asporth, she's the one who gets an earful when she overhears an argument, followed by a scream—and then, dead air. Was someone being strangled? Or was it just a loud movie? Helen searches the office computer database to learn more about Asporth and the much younger woman he allegedly lived with... before she disappeared. And soon, Helen's in over her head and soon chasing clues, and trying to avoid a close call... with a killer.



    Elaine Viets' Bio

    Elaine Viets actually works the same dead-end jobs as her character, Helen Hawthorne. She has been a dress shop clerk, bookseller and a telemarketer who called you at dinner time. You probably hung up on her. MURDER BETWEEN THE COVERS is the second book in the Dead- End Job series. She and Helen have a real future working jobs that go nowhere. Elaine has just signed a contract for three more books.

    She lives in South Florida with her husband, Don Crinklaw. They collect parking tickets.