WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED: A Jeri Howard Mystery

Dawson, Janet

ISBN 10: 0449001989 / ISBN 13: 9780449001981

Published by Fawcett Columbine, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1998

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Signed by author, and uniquely inscribed (without attribution) on title page as follows: "Life's too short to drink bad coffee! Hope you enjoy finding out where all the bodies are buried." Oakland private eye Jeri Howard?s client, a paralegal named Rob Lawter, is murdered before he can tell her why he needs a private investigator. Jeri thinks the answer is at the company where Rob worked. So she goes undercover in the corporate legal department, determined to find out where the bodies are buried. ?One reason I like Janet Dawson?s gal gumshoe, Jeri Howard, so much is that she likes her life?Jeri is not your standard malcontent, bourbon-guzzling private eye?As with the other novels in the Jeri Howard series, Where The Bodies Are Buried salts its suspense with tart social commentary.? Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post . Eighth in the Jeri Howard mystery series. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder=marked or price-clipped} A40.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED: A Jeri Howard Mystery
• Publisher: Fawcett Columbine, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0449001989
• ISBN 13: 9780449001981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Unique Signature
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed/Inscribed Books
  • Mysteries

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Synopsis

When her new client, a paralegal at a food-processing firm, takes a mysterious header through his living room window, shortly before blowing the whistle on a serious corporate cover-up, private eye Jeri Howard goes undercover at a company that will do anything to hide a deadly health scare from the public.

About the Author

Janet Dawson's first novel, Kindred Crimes, won the Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel Contest and was nominated for Anthony and Shamus awards as well. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime and has written six other Jeri Howard mysteries: Till the Old Men Die, Take a Number, Don't Turn Your Back on the Ocean, Nobody's Child, A Credible Threat, and Witness to Evil. Dawson worked as an enlisted journalist in the navy before moving to Alameda, California.