Jaine Austen mysteries

Jaine Austen is a hip, jack-of-all-trades writer who spends her days penning steamy personal ads. No-one needs her help more than geeky Howard Murdoch. Jaine successfully sets him up on a date and all is going well until Valentine's Day when Howard finds his new love has been murdered.

"While ghostwriting a book of hostess tips for a Beverly Hills socialite, Jaine Austen gets up-close and personal with murder when her employer is found dead and her stepdaughter, a shy, insecure girl, stands accused of the crime."--from NoveList.

On 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...

Hired by her high school nemesis, Patti, to rewrite the ending of "Romeo and Juliet" for her wedding, Jaine Austen gets more than she had bargained for when Patti falls to her death from the balcony just before her big scene.

When Bunny, the trophy wife of mattress mogul Marvin Cooper, dies from a poisoned martini at a party Jaine is attending with her friend Lance, Jaine works to find the real killer and exonerate Lance, who is the prime suspect.

When Cryptessa Muldoon, a Hollywood has-been who spends her days making enemies with everyone on the street, is found murdered on Halloween night, Jaine Austen, to prove her own innocence, must unmask a killer among a neighborhood filled with suspects.

"When she is hired to write lyrics for a contestant in the talent competition for the Miss Teen Queen America pageant, freelance writer Jaine Austen is plunged into a glittering nightmare of vicious stage moms, exacting judges and trash-talking teens after a catfight turns deadly"--

Freelance writer Jaine Austen thought working for a knock-off reality show in the tropics would be paradise. But when she and her kitty Prozac find themselves trapped between a dimwitted leading man, catty contestants, and a cold-blooded murderer, the splashy gig becomes one deadly nightmare... Jaine's life has been a royal pain since she started penning dialogue for Some Day My Prince Will Come-a cheesy dating show that features bachelorettes competing...

Daisy Kincaid is in her sixties and heiress to a fortune. Now she wants to make a name for herself as a romance author . . . with a little help from Jaine, that is. As Jaine labors away on love scenes, she gets to know the wealthy woman's gentleman friend, her household staff, and her social circle-every one of whom is horrified when Daisy falls under the spell of a much younger stud named Tommy, a rude, crude lothario who's made himself a fixture...

Freelance writer Jaine Austen and her cat Prozac investigate the murder of a demanding actress set to star in a play based on a short-lived zombie sitcom.