Dating Is Murder: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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Wollie Shelley, the plucky amateur sleuth Kirkus Reviews called “funny, brave, smart,and altogether the fetchingest crime heroine since the early Stephanie Plum,” returnsto face suspect lovers and unlovable suspects in this hilarious sequel to DatingDead Men.

Wollie Shelley is a greeting card artist struggling to keep afloat financiallyand to pursue—despite a series of recent disasters—the search for the love of herlife. She reluctantly agrees to be a contestant on the reality television show BiologicalClock. The show’s premise: Six eligible singles date each other, and the audiencevotes on which couple would make the best parents. Alas, Wollie isn’t having muchluck finding a man she’d like to date “off the air,” much less father her her own biological clock ticks away, Wollie gets caught up in a much more pressingdemand on her time. Her friend Annika has vanished into thin air, and Wollie is convincedthat she’s in grave danger.

When Wollie reports the disappearance to the Los AngelesPolice Department, however, the detective assigned to the case seems more interestedin dating Wollie than in finding her friend. So Wollie springs into action—and landsright in the middle of an FBI investigation into an international drug cartel. Shesoon finds herself being stalked by an assortment of threatening characters, includingher fellow television contestants, who will stop at nothing to beat the clock.

With Dating Is Murder, Kozak delivers another sparkling treasure, a laugh-out-loud-funny,literate mystery for readers of Janet Evanovich and Sue Grafton and for Kozak’s owngrowing legion of fans.