The PMS Murder (A Jaine Austen Mystery)
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The PMS Murder (A Jaine Austen Mystery)

Mass Market Paperback – December 2, 2014

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Price
$17.24
Publisher
Kensington
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1617735486
Dimensions
4.44 x 0.82 x 6.76 inches
Weight
4.8 ounces

Description

Laura Levine is a comedy writer whose television credits include The Bob Newhart Show, Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat, The Jeffersons, Three's Company , and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman . Her work has been published in The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times . She lives in Los Angeles, and is currently working on the next Jaine Austen mystery. Readers can reach her at [email protected], or her website: www.JaineAustenMysteries.com.

Features & Highlights

  • "I'm crazy about Laura Levine's mystery series. Her books are so outrageously funny." --Joanne FlukeOn the frontlines of the battle of the bulge, otherwise known as trying on bathing suits in the communal dressing room at Loehmann's, freelance writer Jaine Austen makes a new friend--a wannabe actress named Pam--and gets a new job: sprucing up Pam's bare-bones resume. Their feeling of connection is mutual, so Pam invites Jaine to join The PMS Club–a women's support group that meets once a week over guacamole and margaritas. But joining the club proves to be more a curse than a blessing for Jaine. Though she is warned that Rochelle, the hostess, makes a guacamole to die for, Jaine never takes the warning literally. Until another PMS member, Marybeth, drops dead over a mouthful of the green stuff. Now instead of dishing dirt with The PMS Club, Jaine has to dig up the dirt on the surviving members. . . "Jaine can really dish it out." --
  • The New York Times Book Review

Customer Reviews

Rating Breakdown

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Great

Great book & very funny. My mom loves it.
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Slow pace - predictable turns

Don't think I would buy another one though.
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Too Funny!

I love these books! Jaine Austen is a hilarious protagonist. Nice, light read but the mystery is always great too!
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Worked great for Christmas

Came undamaged and in a timely manner. Worked great for Christmas! I didn't read the book, so I have no comments on the book content!
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Five Stars

Great!
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Love this author and her writing

Love this author and her writing. Anyone who has a cat knows that her take on Prozac the cat is right on! Murder mystery is engrossing but easy to read and enjoy. I've read the first six, can't wait to read the rest.
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Great series but this isn't the best book in it

Jaine Austen reads are light and fun. They are always high on entertainment value if often low on realism.

I really enjoyed seeing Jaine interact with new friends. I have read most of the books in the series and her usual buddies Lance and Kandi can get pretty tedious. Among other things they are very different from Jaine and it is sometimes a wonder why they are friends. The women of the PMS club are more like Jaine and at least I understood why she was drawn to them.

The woman who was killed was the meanie of the group so I didn’t mourn her at all but I was surprised at who the eventual killer was. I thought their motive was really weak but I did think it was nice that Levine threw in a bit of a twist at the ending. In some of the recent Jaine Austen books I had read the killer ended up being a character who was disguising themselves or who was a barely there character with a seemingly random motive for murder. I was glad that Levine chose the murderer she did in this book but I wish their motive had been better.

Also, the secondary storyline in this book involving Jaine’s parents was a hoot. In every book in the series (that I have read anyways) Jaine recieves emails from her mom and dad. Usually, her dad is getting into some kind of trouble and her mother is trying to fix it or to at least minimize the damage. In one book he got tons of yard gnomes and went up against the homeowners association president when he was told they were an eye sore. In another he was in a cooking competition and snuck into a competitors house sure that she had stolen his secret spice to keep him from winning with his popcorn chicken dish (literal popcorn not small sized chicken pieces).I thought her parents story in this book was one of the better ones.

Overall, this series is fun to read and I highly recommend it though this is not one of my favorite books in the series.
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Five Stars

Love Laura Levine. Each book is a good as the last.

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