Dating Dead Men: A Novel

Dating Dead Men, Harley Jane Kozak’s hilarious debut novel, proves that the search for love can be as funny as it is deadly. -Kris Neri, author of the Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Award-nominated Tracy Eaton mysteries

Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating forty men in sixty days
as research for a radio talk show host’s upcoming book, How to Avoid Getting Dumped
All the Time. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love,
not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescado–a state-run mental
hospital–and is momentarily taken hostage by a charismatic doctor who is on the
run from the Mob. Wollie fears that her beloved brother, a paranoid schizophrenic
living at Rio Pescado, is involved in the murder, so rather than go to the authorities,
she decides to solve the crime on her own. As she meets up with an array of small-time
crooks and swaggering mobsters only slightly more sinister than the men she’s been
dating, Wollie realizes that getting dumped is the least of her problems. Finding
true love, she discovers, sometimes means learning how to avoid getting killed .
. .

Dating Dead Men will keep readers guessing until the final bullet is shot–and
cheering for the irresistible Wollie as she makes her way out of confusion and into
the welcoming embrace of Mr. Right.