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    Dating Is Murder: A Novel

    By Harley Jane Kozak

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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,” returns to face suspect lovers and unlovable suspects in this hilarious sequel to Dating Dead Men.

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

    When Wollie reports the disappearance to the Los Angeles Police Department, however, the detective assigned to the case seems more interested in dating Wollie than in finding her friend. So Wollie springs into action—and lands right in the middle of an FBI investigation into an international drug cartel. She soon finds herself being stalked by an assortment of threatening characters, including her 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 own growing legion of fans.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateMar 15, 2005
    ISBN9780385515122
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    Harley Jane Kozak

    Harley Jane Kozak is an actress-turned-writer. She was born in Pennsylvania, the youngest of 8 children. When she was a baby, her father died and her mother moved the family to Nebraska to teach music. Harley first appeared onstage at the age of 5, and at 19 moved to New York to attend NYU's Graduate Acting Program, later starring in 3 soaps, 10 feature films, and numerous TV series. In the early 2000’s she gave birth to 3 children and a novel, and the rest, as they say, is history.

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    • 4/5
      Another fun romp of a whodunnit!
    • 5/5
      One of the best mysteries I read in 2007. Wollie Shelley, a greeting-card designer who supports her schizophrenic brother, is trying to make money and get health insurance by participating in a reality=tv show involving dating. She's also trying to finish college and so when her math tutor, a German au pair, disappears, she's highly motivated to find her. Hijinks, as well as murders, ensue. Set in LA, and you can tell the author (who was in the movie Parenthood and others) knows whereof she writes.
    • 4/5
      Wollie Shelly is trying to suppliment her income from designing greeting cards by participating in a reality series called Biological Clock. While working on the series she meets and becomes friends with Annika, an au pair from Germany. When Annika disappears, Wollie can not help but look for her. When she starts getting warnings to mind her own business, she still can not stop. Then when Annika's boyfriend also goes missing, Wollie becomes even more involved. She and her friends try to solve the puzzle and end up causing more trouble than helping. I enjoyed this book. It is entertaining and I think Kozak's timing is getting better. I can not help but like Wollie, who is so caring about everyone else that she continues to put herself in harms way.
    • 4/5
      Checked this book out @ the library and read it in a few days. I loved it. It's the sequel to Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak. I know better then to borrow books from the library because I just end up wanting to keep them.
    • 4/5
      It's taking me a long time to finish this, which is not a good sign. Kozak's writing seems clunky and her attempts at adding surprises to her plot are awkward and amateurish. Yet I do want to finish this book just so I can move onto the next one in my TBR list.