"Entertainingly clever plot and hysterical characters make this mystery first-rate."

By: Lori Avocato

Genres: Mystery Amateur Sleuth

Posted: June 17, 2005

Working as an insurance fraud investigator shouldn't necessarily be dangerous or emotionally risky, but when former nurse Pauline Sokol's wacky uncle gets into the mix, everything gets turned upside down and sideways. Even worse than dressing like an old lady to get the inside goods on possible fraud and a possible murder is when two of Pauline's gentlemen friends go back and forth between trying to help her in their own ways and being possessive and strange.

A madcap romp of disguise and misdirection, THE STIFF AND THE DEAD is an outrageous book with an excellent plotline. Not only does it provide clever action, funny dialogue and unexpected plot twists, it contains some of the most hysterically well-developed characters seen in years of mystery fiction!

Book Summary

PAULINE HAS A DRUG PROBLEM…

Once a nurse, now a medical insurance fraud investigator, Pauline Sokol’s going undercover in a local seniors’ center, where prescriptions are still being filled for a patient who just happens to be dead. A little behind-the- scenes snooping reveals the hard facts: the recently deceased oldster was up to his jowls in an illegal Viagra ring! Not that Pauline begrudges these elderly gents their newfound virility, but it’s unnerving to be in the middle of a group of sex-mad overage lotharios who suddenly have the wherewithal to do something about it. It’s bad enough that she keeps getting distracted by her own fantasies about her handsome co-worker Nick…not to mention her dangerously sexy fellow investigator Jagger. However, there’s nothing like a few more suspicious deaths to get a girl’s mind back on her work--especially if the next prescription for murder seems to have Pauline’s name on it!

The Stiff and the Dead by Lori Avocato

The Stiff and the Dead

by: Lori Avocato

A Pauline Sokol Mystery #2

Avon
July 1, 2005
On Sale: June 1, 2005
Featuring: Pauline Sokol; Jagger; Goldie Perlman
336 pages
ISBN: 0060731664
EAN: 9780060731663
Paperback

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