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Dating Dead Men: A Wollie Shelley Mystery Taschenbuch – 28. Dezember 2004

Englisch Ausgabe von Harley Jane Kozak (Autor)

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As part of her research for talk-show host Dr. Cookie Lahven's upcoming book How to Avoid Getting Dumped All the Time, L.A. greeting-card artist and gift-shop manager Wollie Shelley is dating forty men in sixty days, but her assignment is complicated by an unexpected corpse, a "doctor" on the run from the Mob, her paranoid-schizophrenic brother, and her investigation into the crime. A first novel. Reprint.

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Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating forty men in sixty days as research for a radio talk show hosts upcoming book, How to Avoid Getting Dumped All the Time. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescadoa state-run mental hospitaland is momentarily taken hostage by a charismatic doctor who is on the run from the Mob. Wollie fears that her beloved brother, a paranoid schizophrenic living at Rio Pescado, is involved in the murder, so rather than go to the authorities, she decides to solve the crime on her own. As she meets up with an array of small-time crooks and swaggering mobsters only slightly more sinister than the men shes been dating, Wollie realizes that getting dumped is the least of her problems. Finding true love, she discovers, sometimes means learning how to avoid getting killed . . .

Dating Dead Men will keep readers guessing until the final bullet is shotand cheering for the irresistible Wollie as she makes her way out of confusion and into the welcoming embrace of Mr. Right.

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Harley Jane Kozak is an actor whose screen credits include Parenthood, The Favor, and Arachnophobia. She lives in California with her husband, three children, two dogs, and a cat. She is working on a sequel to Dating Dead Men.

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Wollie Shelley Mystery
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Englisch
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Fawcett Books
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28. Dezember 2004
ISBN-10

0449007502
ISBN-13

978-0449007501
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Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Fawcett Books; Reprint Edition (28. Dezember 2004)
Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0449007502
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0449007501

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Geisha X

Wir wollen mehr Wollie!

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 26. Februar 2007

Wollie Shelley unterhält ein kleines Grußkartengeschäft in Hollywood. Da ihre finanzielle Lage zu wünschen übrig lässt, lässt sie sich für das Projekt einer Wissenschaftlerin als professionelle, Daterin anwerben. Innerhalb von 30 Tagen muss sie 40 Dates zu mindestens zwei Stunden absolvieren und dabei den Kriterien und Voraussetzungen der Forscherin gerecht werden, welche sie dafür nach Abschluss des Projekts entlohnen soll. So jedenfalls war es geplant, doch kurz vor einem wissenschaftlichen Date erhält Wollie einen Anruf ihres schizophrenen Bruders, der glaubt Zeuge eines Mordes geworden zu sein. Besorgt macht sie Wollie auf den Weg zur Klinik, stolpert prompt über eine Leiche und wird von einem charismatischen vermeintlichen Doktor entführt, dessen Grübchenlächeln ihr gesamtes Dating-Projekt gefährdet.

"Dating Dead Man" zu lesen hat mir unglaublichen Spass gemacht, Wollie ist eine sympathisch-chaotische Hauptfigur, die Sprache ist ungekünstelt und natürlich, die Sitationskomik fand ich stellenweise wirklich zum Schreien komisch. Der Kriminalfall ist stellenweise etwas dünn konstruiert - ein erfahrener Krimileser wird sich einige Hinweise bereits Längen vor Wollie zusammenreimen, doch alles in allem zufriedenstellend.

Die "Wollie Shelley"-Serie der Schauspielerin Harley Jane Kozak ("Arachnophobia", sowie Nebenrollen in bekannten Filmen wie "Titanic" oder "Harry & Sally") wird bereits mit den Stephanie Plum-Büchern von Janet Evanovich verglichen. Und beide Serien treffen auf alle Fälle im gleichen Genre aufeinander - einer Mischung aus Krimi, Liebe und Humor. Doch das Mischungsverhältnis unterscheidet die Serien und der Liebe-Anteil ist bei Kozak subtiler, mit mehr Romantik und weniger Sex.

Ich werde auf jeden Fall auch den nächsten Band "Dating is Murder" lesen und mir den Namen Harley Jane Kozak für die Zukunft merken.

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Pen NameTashaLotty

Five Stars

Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 17. Dezember 2017

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Just started this book, and already hooked! Cannot put it down......

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A. Reid

Madcap Adventure; light on mystery, long on fun

Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 27. Mai 2005

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The biggest complaint I have about this book is that I'm finished. I decided to pick up one of Harley Jane Kozak's romantic comedy mysteries on the high recommendation of Entertainment Weekly. From their review, I expected that the book would be competently written. I didn't expect it to make me laugh out loud or to make me care for her characters quite so much.

In that, I can see, I differ from some of Amazon's other reviewers.

This book is definitely a hybrid, which may make it a challenge to fans of the traditional mystery. It has many qualities of the romantic comedy. In that guise, Kozak reads most to me like MaryJanice Davidson (without the vampires). Of the other mystery writers I read, Kozak reminds me most of Joan Hess, particularly with Hess' Claire Malloy mysteries. But we're not dealing with the slow meticulous gathering of clues common to the mystery genre--and which for many of us is the primary pleasure of the reading of that type. From the start, this novel is a joyride, with some interesting scenery along the way. Less Ellery Queen. More Inspector Clouseau. But without all the bumbling...and with a lot more focus on dating and shoes.

Our heroine, Wollie Shelley, is warm and believable--larger than life, but--in my opinion--true to it. Her relationship with her mentally ill brother (which propels the story) feels genuine, not exploitative. Some of his symptoms may be cliche, but he is not--he is highly sympathetic. Wollie's career goals and dreams feel integral, not window-dressing tossed in to simulate character depth. As with many comic characters, she is often impulsive, but her impulsiveness doesn't seem contrived simply to move the plot along. Her behavior seems of a piece with her personality.

I plan to pick up the second Wollie Shelley mystery immediately. If it's even half as much fun as this one, Kozak will have earned herself a loyal fan.

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M. C. Crammer

I think I liked this author's second in the series a bit better

Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 9. August 2005

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But this one is very good, too. I read them out of order, of course!

Wolly Shelley (what a name!) is kind of an LA Stephanie Plum -- same kind of "suspend all disbelief" over the top humor. I think the plotting is much better than Evanovich, however, whereas Evanovich does romance very well. Both Steph and Wolly have strange families that they nevertheless love and are close to.

Wolly's brother is sweet schizophrenic, and at the beginning of the book, Wolly gets a call from him (he's in a mental health on a trial of a new medication) talking about murder. She is afraid that perhaps HE has killed someone, although that would be totally unlike him. She rushes out to the hospital to find her brother and discovers (at night) a body in the driveway to the hospital. She goes into the hospital to find him and is immediately taken captive by a man she is very much attracted to -- she mistakes him at first for a physician. They take off in his car, and the rest of the book involves the intrigue he is dealing with -- he tries to drop her off but she refuses (I told you that a serious suspension of disbelief is needed.)

Wolly is simultaneously involved in a "scientific study" in which she has to date a whole bunch of men (blind dates) in a short period of time, wearing a pre-chosen wardrobe that arrives before each date. You can imagine some of the choices. Not to mention some of the dates.

It's humorous, the characters that should be likable are likable, the villains are cartoonishly villainous, and the pacing of the book is fast. If you enjoy madcap humor and romance in your mysteries, you should really like this book.

As to the reviewer who complained about celebrities being authors, frankly I've never heard of this actor and didn't know that the author was an actor until I read the bio at the back of the book. Frankly, who cares? It can't help or hurt a book.

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BMcKenna

Love, Laughter, and Lethality in L.A.

Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 22. Februar 2012

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I like mysteries, I like to laugh, and I'm a sucker for true love. I'm also an incredibly picky reader. A friend's recommendation led me to Dating Dead Men, and I'll always be grateful for that; otherwise I'd never have met Wollie and Doc and Fredreeq and all the other wonderfully-drawn characters that populate this remarkable novel.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (no, not that one) is an artistic soul struggling to make it in the greeting card business. Finding a dead body on the way to visit her brother in a mental hospital and being subsequently kidnapped by a mysterious (and good-looking) man with a ferret is only the very beginning of an adventure that will take Wollie Shelley on a lethal whirlwind tour of L.A., from Sunset to cemeteries to synagogues, into the clutches of knife-wielding mobsters and gun-toting Swedes and dates best forgotten. It's entertaining and real and laugh-out-loud funny, and highly, highly recommended.

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Jean B.

Fun Mystery

Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 25. Juni 2022

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The whole series is very cute. It is a shame she did not write more of these fun mysteries.

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