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Dying in style : Josie Marcus, mystery shopper / Elaine Viets

ISBN: 0739460889
ISBN: 9780739460887
ISBN: 9780451216793
ISBN: 0451216792
Physical Description: viii, 279 pages ; 22 cm.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Signet, [2005]
Copyright: &copy;2005

Viets, Elaine, 1950- (Author).

Summary:

Women would kill for Josie Marcus's job as mystery shopper, which takes her in and out of boutiques, supermarkets, even fast-food joints to report on quality and service. But it's hard work. Besides being a single mom to a nine-year-old, Josie is the undercover shopping police, protecting unsuspecting consumers everywhere. And she never falsifies her reports, even if it's a matter of life, death, or a red-tag sale... Ah, the Danessa Celedine handbag. To have one is to invite envy and flaunt wealth, with each bag costing upward of five thousand dollars. When a large company considers paying millions for use of the Danessa name, Josie's hired to inspect the designer's stores anonymously. And each boutique is worse than the one before. Her less than stellar report provokes threats of a lawsuit...until Danessa is strangled with one of her own thousand-dollar snakeskin belts. Josie better bag the killer before she winds up in an ugly jailhouse outfit herself..