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(0)Laura Levine
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Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her abusive professional-matchmaker boss ends up dead, Jaine Austen is on the long list of suspects.
When Jaine lands a job writing web copy and brochures for matchmaker Joy Amoroso, shes excited for a chance to help the lovelorn just in time for Valentines Day until she realizes what Dates of Joy is really all about. Joy is a ruthless taskmaster who screams at her employees for the smallest infractions, pads her website with pictures of professional...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The future is looking bright for freelance writer Jaine Austen. She's signed up for a new job, she's looking forward to a tropical vacation, and her cat Prozac is slated to star in a major commercial. But when the claws come out behind the scenes, Jaine worries that murder might be the only thing to meow about....
Author
Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 9
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Marv Cooper's trophy wife Bunny is murdered during a lavish party, Jaine's friend Lance becomes the prime suspect. But Jaine knows he just couldn't have done it and sets out to find the real killer.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When she is hired to write lyrics for a contestant in the talent competition for the Miss Teen Queen America pageant, freelance writer Jaine Austen is plunged into a glittering nightmare of vicious stage moms, exacting judges and trash-talking teens after a catfight turns deadly"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Daisy Kincaid is in her sixties and heiress to a fortune. Now she wants to make a name for herself as a romance author...with a little help from Jaine, that is. As Jaine labors away on love scenes, she gets to know the wealthy woman's gentleman friend, her household staff, and her social circle--every one of whom is horrified when Daisy falls under the spell of a much younger stud named Tommy, a rude, crude lothario who's made himself a fixture in...
7) Last writes
Author
Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 2
Language
English
Description
Jaine lands a job as a sitcom writer with the help of her best friend Kandi. Everything is going well until the star actor Quinn Kirkland ends up murdered and Jaine's best friend is the primary suspect of the police.
Author
Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 8
Language
English
Description
While teaching on a swanky cruise, wordsmith Jaine Austen soon discovers that her all-expenses-paid trip to the Mexican Riviera comes with a high price when she is faced with blackmail, a sleazy British dancer, eccentric passengers, and murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Uber-stylist Bebe Braddock plans to juice up her Instagram feed and thinks Jaine would make a perfect 'Before & After' model. At Lance's insistence, Jaine is ushered into Bebe's sprawling Brentwood spread to await her transformation. Yet, while the surroundings are glamorous, the atmosphere is toxic as Bebe bullies her team of assistants, and even her husband, into obeying her every whim. Having earned the wrath of everyone in her orbit, few are...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Freelance writer Jaine Austen and her cat Prozac investigate the murder of a demanding actress set to star in a play based on a short-lived zombie sitcom.
Author
Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 15
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 245 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jaine's life has been a royal pain since she started penning dialogue for Some Day My Prince Will Come--a cheesy dating show that features bachelorettes competing for the heart of Spencer Dalworth VII, a very distant heir to the British throne. As if fending off golf ball-sized bugs on a sweltering island wasn't tough enough, Jaine must test her patience against an irritable production crew and fierce contestants who will do anything to get their...
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
viii, 261 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Cryptessa Muldoon, a Hollywood has-been who spends her days making enemies with everyone on the street, is found murdered on Halloween night, Jaine Austen, to prove her own innocence, must unmask a killer among a neighborhood filled with suspects.
Author
Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 6
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Agreeing to write jokes for Dorcas, a struggling stand-up comic, Jaine Austen discovers that murder is the punchline when Dorcas's rival, a heckler named Vic, is strangled with one of her props--a pair of pantyhose.
14) Killer blonde
Author
Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A gal with a serious Ben & Jerry's habit can't afford to be too picky about employment opportunities. So when Beverly Hills socialite SueEllen Kingsley offers freelance writer Jaine Austen megabucks to ghostwrite a book of hostess tips, it's time to sharpen the #2s.
But everything short circuits when Jaine finds SueEllen floating face down in her tub, fried by her own blow dryer. The primary suspect: Heidi, SueEllen's stepdaughter, whose account...
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Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 10
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 228 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jaine Austen is looking forward to an indulgent spa getaway until she learns it is more about deprivation than relaxation. Between minuscule meals and a deadly brush with fame, surviving this vacation will be no piece of cake.
Author
Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joining the PMS club--a women's support group that meets once a week over guacamole and margaritas to commiserate about love and life--proves to be a curse more than a blessing for Jaine. Though she is warned that the hostess makes a guacamole to die for, Jaine never takes the warning literally until another PMS member drops dead.
17) Shoes to die for
Author
Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
If clothes make the man, then what do Jaine Austen's elastic-waist pants and T-shirts make her? A fashion nightmare, according to her neighbor, Lance. She doesn't expect Lance-who works in the designer shoe department at Nieman Marcus-to understand... which is how she ends up visiting his favorite boutique, Passions. While the couture is definitely not for Jaine, the staff's gossip is. Tiny orange-haired clerk Becky starts complaining about her coworker...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Hannah Swensen of the Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minnesota, discovers her neighbor's head bashed in; Jaine Austen's holiday stay at her parents' home in the Tampa Vistas retirement community is enlivened by the murder of elderly lothario; and, Maine reporter Lucy Stone investigates a four-year-old boy's disappearance. Includes recipes.