"Wonderful mix of comedy and mystery."

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, she hears someone get killed. When the police investigate, they discover nothing, which does the same for Helen's shattered nerves. After talking to the victim's sister, Helen decides to investigate the seamy underworld, taking on an entirely different kind of dead-end job.

Filled with a slew of colorful characters, DYING TO CALL YOU is a wonderful mix of comedy and mystery. Helen's landlady, the neighbors and an invisible pothead are nothing compared to the "normal" people renting one of the rooms. Well-written and amusing, this book makes one forget about his or her own rigors of life in order to concentrate on Helen's.

Reviewed by Vicky Gilpin
Posted September 20, 2004

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.