Dating is Murder by Harley Jane Kozak

Many of us have been looking in vain for someone to compete successfully with Janet Evanovich and her spicy Stephanie Plum series (One for the Money, etc.). On a different coast—California rather than New Jersey—and without the plausible excuse for running into bad guys—Plum works for a bail bondsman--Kozak’s graphic artist Wollie Shelley still manages to find the laughs, the unusual situations, and a supporting cast of likeable characters just like Plum. She has a cockeyed view, which is both funny and human—“the term “think tank” brought to mind people sitting around in swimsuits, dangling their feet in water as they pondered grave issues of international importance”. Maybe it won’t take you as long as it did for Wollie to smell out the bad guy but while you are dashing around LA she will keep you entertained.