Escape The Ordinary with author Elaine Viets

Main Library Bienes Museum Ceremonial Room CHECKED OUT is a A DEAD-END JOB MYSTERYBY ELAINE VIETSMeet author Elaine Viets. Books will be available for sale and signing.Helen Hawthorne’s search for a missing million dollars in a South Florida library leads to murder, and her private eye partner, Phil, is booked to broil in the sun while he hunts for a ruby necklace stolen at a scandalous party in the 14th Dead-End Job Mystery, CHECKED OUT (Obsidian Hardcover; May 5, 2015; $24.95) by Elaine Viets. Helen has been hired by socialite Elizabeth Cateman Kingsley to find a missing John Singer Sargent painting owned by her late father. After his death, thousands of Davis Kingsley’s books were donated to the Flora Park Library, and his daughter suspects the small watercolor, worth a million dollars, is tucked in a dusty tome. Her search is complicated by the library’s mischievous calico cat and a ghost who may be all too alive. Phil is on the trail of a stolen ruby necklace and that peculiar Florida crime, golf cart rustling. Helen has to find a killer and the million dollar painting before she’s taken out of circulation.CHECKED OUT is full of library secrets, and Elaine tells all. She volunteers for her local library in Fort Lauderdale. Book lovers will discover this inside look at libraries is a real treasure. Elaine Viets’s bestselling Dead-End Job series is a satiric look at a serious subject, the minimum wage world. Her character, private eye Helen Hawthorne, works a different low-paying job each book. Elaine has won the Anthony, the Agatha and the Lefty Awards. Elaine Viets lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with her husband, reporter Don Crinklaw.