Audiobook series5 titles
Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper Series
Written by Elaine Viets
Narrated by Amanda Stribling
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
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About this series
Josie Marcus thought mystery-shopping pricey clothes for fashion-forward pups would be fun. Until she’s hired to check out a big pet store and finds out it’s involved with puppy mills. Josie gets a tip from an employee named Edna that the designer dogs are cruelly bred in puppy mills. Josie is led to a puppy mill and secretly videos the conditions. When brave Edna is found dead, Josie realizes she’s landed in a dangerous situation. She’ll have to save herself, as well as the abused pups.
Titles in the series (5)
- Dying in Style: A Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper Mystery
1
Ah, the Danessa Celedine handbag. To have one is to invite envy and flaunt wealth, with each bag costing about five thousand dollars. When a big company considers paying millions for the use of the Danessa name, mystery shopper Josie Marcus is hired to shop the stores secretly. Each boutique is worse then the other. Josie's less than stellar report provokes threats of a lawsuit – until Danessa is strangled with one of her thousand-dollar snakeskin belts. Now Josie has to bag the killer to keep her job – and maybe her life.
- High Heels are Murder: A Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper Mystery
2
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.
- Accessory to Murder: A Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper Mystery
3
Josie Marcus mystery-shops scarves. Mystery shopper Josie Marcus knows her job isn’t always glamorous. Like when she has to sample greasy fast food. Now her best friend’s husband is accused of murder. Someone has killed Halley Hardwicke, the hot new designer of thousand dollar scarves. Halley and Jake were just a little too neighborly. Josie goes undercover for clues to help Jake, and learns that Halley’s scarves were to die for.
- Murder with All the Trimmings
4
Undercover retail spy and single mom Josie has to mystery-shop three year-round Christmas stores that popped up near her home, and it’s no holiday. The three stores are in a desperate fight to survive, and it’s complicated further when Josie gives the shop owned by her boyfriend’s ex a bad rating. Her home isn’t aglow with the holiday spirit, either. Josie has to deal with murder, mayhem and motherhood.
- The Fashion Hound Murders
5
Josie Marcus thought mystery-shopping pricey clothes for fashion-forward pups would be fun. Until she’s hired to check out a big pet store and finds out it’s involved with puppy mills. Josie gets a tip from an employee named Edna that the designer dogs are cruelly bred in puppy mills. Josie is led to a puppy mill and secretly videos the conditions. When brave Edna is found dead, Josie realizes she’s landed in a dangerous situation. She’ll have to save herself, as well as the abused pups.
Author
Elaine Viets
Elaine Viets has written 33 mysteries in four series: the bestselling Dead-End Job series with South Florida PI Helen Hawthorne, the cozy Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper mysteries, and the dark Francesca Vierling mysteries. With the Angela Richman Death Investigator series, Elaine returns to her hardboiled roots and uses her experience as a stroke survivor and her studies at the Medicolegal Death Investigators Training Course. Elaine was a director at large for the Mystery Writers of America. She's a frequent contributor to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and anthologies edited by Charlaine Harris and Lawrence Block. Elaine won the Anthony, Agatha and Lefty Awards.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I do not like how Josie hates successful white men. This character picks out all negative stereotypes be them black or white.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Narrator was fine to me. I thought story is fine. I got tired of Josie's mother character.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I could not listen to the narrator for this book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It wasn’t really that interesting and the characters were easily forgettable. I was disappointed.