High Heels are Murder, Elaine Viets
High Heels are Murder, Elaine Viets
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High Heels are Murder
A Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper Mystery

Author: Elaine Viets

Narrator: Amanda Stribling

Unabridged: 8 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/29/2022


Synopsis

Josie Marcus mystery-shops shoes.

Undercover retail spy and single mom Josie has to mystery shop a shoe store with a salesman called Mel Poulaine, who’s just a little too interested in women’s bare feet. Josie is caught in a web of blackmail, gambling, and truly desperate housewives.

About Elaine Viets

Elaine Viets has written over thirty mysteries among four series. A former director-at-large for the Mystery Writers of America, she is a frequent contributor to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and anthologies edited by Charlaine Harris and Lawrence Block.


Reviews

Rating 3.5 stars Josie really knows how to get herself caught in a mess but boy I have to say her daughter is just too funny and sweet, mom was a little less annoying but still bothered me, as for the weird things that those guys were into wasn’t as crazy as to who they were but of course the twist......more

Goodreads review by Gwenn on June 02, 2012

Amusing. A cleaner, less funny, version of Evanovich, but still amusing. A little preachy about gambling and I absolutely detest gambling (work enough gas stations and gambling begins to churn your stomach). But it was fun and light.......more

Goodreads review by Missi on May 26, 2021

High Heels Are Murder is the second book in the Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper series by Elaine Viets and boy is it explosive !!! How do authors come up with such crazy ideas ?? Josie Marcus loves her job as a mystery shopper, mainly for the flexibility it allows her so that she can spend time with he......more

Goodreads review by Laura on September 20, 2014

Elaine Viets is one of my favorite cozy mystery authors, thanks to her "Dead End Job" series, and now this title in the "Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper" series. Combining the fun of mystery shopping with the dark side of foot fetishes, Josie has to mystery shop Soft Shoe, where salesman Mel Poulaine i......more

Goodreads review by Ed on August 15, 2012

#2 in the Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper series. Josie is supposed to find out if a shoe salesman has too much interest in his customers' feet. Interesting sidelight - who knew that there was a subset of foot fetishists, "pedal pushers", who get off on watching a woman depress the gas pedal on a car.......more