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"Fine amateur sleuth"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted September 10, 2004

Helen Hawthorne caught her unemployed husband having ﷯﷯sex﷯﷯ with their next door neighbor and in a rage she wrecked his SUV. The Judge ordered her to pay alimony because her spouse spent the last few years taking care of her and their home while she earned a six figure income. Read more...

"Wonderful mix of comedy and mystery."
Reviewed by Vicky Gilpin
Posted September 20, 2004

Helen Hawthorne's latest dead-end job in a string of dead- end jobs is as a telemarketer in a shady locale. Though a friend offers her a business position, Helen takes these jobs to stay off of her husband's radar because of an incident with a crowbar. While making a survey call, Read more...

"A telemarketer overhears murder"
Reviewed by Dawn Dowdle
Posted September 23, 2005

Helen Hawthorne is working another dead-end job with payment in cash so she can evade her ex-husband and the law. This time she's doing telemarketing. While she's good at it, she gets plenty of hang-ups and people cursing her out. But then she overhears a murder during Read more...

Summary

Once on the fast track to success, Helen Hawthorne is going nowhere faster. Forced to trade in her chic life for a shabby one, she's now on the run, jumping from city to city and dead-end job to dead-end job, trying to stay one step ahead of her past...

Helen Hawthorne has just found her new calling...as a telemarketer. And it's not long before she's disrupting dinners all over the country with her pesky calls. But during a phone survey to the home of Henry Asporth, she's the one who gets an earful when she overhears an argument, followed by a scream—and then, dead air. Was someone being strangled? Or was it just a loud movie? Helen searches the office computer database to learn more about Asporth and the much younger woman he allegedly lived with... before she disappeared. And soon, Helen's in over her head and soon chasing clues, and trying to avoid a close call... with a killer.