Title: Shop till you drop
Subtitle: a dead-end job mystery
First published: 2003
Description: 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.
Subjects: Drug dealers, Helen Hawthorne (Fictitious character), Divorced women, Murder, Mystery, Fiction, Embezzlement, Sales management, Women sales personnel, Fugitives from justice, Drug abuse and crime, Sales executives, Clerks (Retail trade), Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Hawthorne, helen (fictitious character), fiction, Fort lauderdale (fla.), fiction
Places: Fort Lauderdale (Fla.)