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Elaine Viets

AN OBSIDIAN MYSTERY

KILLERCUTS

Also by Elaine Viets

Dead-End Job Mystery Series

Shop till You Drop
Murder Between the Covers
Dying to Call You
Just Murdered
Murder Unleashed
Murder with Reservations
Clubbed to Death

Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper Series

Dying in Style
High Heels Are Murder
Accessory to Murder
Murder with All the Trimmings

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library of congress cataloging-in-publication data:

Viets, Elaine, 1950–
Killer cuts: a dead-end job mystery/Elaine Viets.
p. cm.
“An Obsidian mystery.”

ISBN: 1-101-04803-4

1. Hawthorne, Helen (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction.

3. Fort Lauderdale (Fla.)—Fiction. I.Title. PS3572.I325K55 2009 813’.54—dc22 2008054844

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To Mario Ortega, the other man in my life