Clubbed to Death: A Dead-End Job Mystery
by Elaine Viets
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Author: Elaine VietsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-06
ISBN: 0451223942
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: NAL Hardcover
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Book Review: I really wanted to like this book in a 5-star review way, but Clubbed to Death is lacking
Summary: 3 Stars
Clubbed to Death is the first "Dead-end Job" mystery I've read. I enjoyed the beginning of the book. The chemistry in the customer care office was believable. I appreciated Viets's parody of South Florida's upper class culture. Towards the middle, however, I stopped wanting to read the book. I even returned it to the library. It was getting very farfetched, and that's not how I like my mysteries. I lost a lot of respect for Helen Hawthorne's character- the fake ID, the snooping, etc. Her neighbors in the apartment complex got annoying. All of a sudden, there's a teensy tiny plot about the air-headed Elsie getting swindled out of her ring. And then Helen's boyfriend, Phil, puts his PI skills into play. And, in between all this sleuthing, there is a engagement proposal. Waaay too much going on!!!
Just when I thought it would end, and end well, there were a few chapters to go. Ugh! I didn't really need to know about the neighbors in 2C. Apparently, Margery has had problems with every tenant in that apartment. A seemingly nice couple terminates their lease, but do they terminate their good behavior, too? Honestly, this other teensy plot wasn't needed. Oh, let's not forget Margery, who was one of the "good guys" in Helen's life... turns out to be best friends with Marcella, the "Black Widow". Marcella is a vile old woman with a "love em, leave em" mentality. (And when I say "leave 'em", I mean without their lives!!!!)
Sooo, three stars because the parody of rich culture was solid. Three stars for the office culture. Two stars lost for too many subplots being thrown in. An average read!
Summary of Clubbed to Death: A Dead-End Job Mystery
The national bestselling author who turns "minimum wage into maximum hilarity" (Nancy Martin, author of Murder Melts in Your Mouth) reveals the lifestyles of the rich and murdered.Helen Hawthorne's latest dead-end job is in a country club's complaint department, dealing with the gripes of the rich and spoiled. Then Rob, her deadbeat ex-husband, sails back into her life aboard the yacht of his new lady, Marcella-known as the Black Widow for her string of dead spouses. The next day Rob's reported missing. If the Black Widow has such a murderous reputation, then why is Helen led from the club in handcuffs?
When Marcella helps Helen get released, the two form an uneasy alliance to find out what really happened. Helen's barely begun digging when a club patron is discovered beaten to death with a golf club -his membership permanently expired. Someone got more than a little teed off and it's up to Helen to get to the truth-without getting clubbed herself.
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