In the 8th installment of the Dead-End Job Mystery series by Elaine Viets, we've found Helen working as a gopher for the stylist to the stars and regulars in Killer Cuts. While Helen prepared for her own wedding, she helped Miguel Angel with the wedding details for Honey and King Oden's wedding. A lot of drama happened at the salon, when Phoebe, one of the assistants made rude comments to his customers and flirted with the wedding guests. On Honey's wedding day, it turned out to be a nightmare, when King Oden, a blog communist about gossip ended up dead by drowning, after they said "I Do." From there, Miguel fired Phoebe and rumors spread about Miguel being a person of interest. It was up to Helen and Phil to clear his name and save his business, before it would become too late for Helen's second wedding. For a dead-end job, Helen seemed to like working at the salon this time. Most of her coworkers were decent folks and her boss loved her. She didn't seem annoyed or fed up with it most of the time. This mystery revolved around trying to clear her salon-owner boss in time for him to do hair and makeup for Helen's backyard wedding to Phil. The book ended unexpectedly and rather annoyingly simply because I want to read the next one and the library didn't have a copy on the shelf...This book was more laid-back than any of the others but still had a good mystery with lots of laughs. It makes me want to live at the Coronado and drink cheap white wine around the pool every night after work.
What do You think about Killer Cuts (2009)?
I got so busy that I had to put the book down and will pick it up to read again later.
—Sydney
