Hot rocks

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**From Amazon.com:** **The Nick Hoffman Mysteries Book 7** Fitness = Death? Working out can be tough--and in Hot Rocks it's deadly. Nick Hoffman finds out that underneath the gleaming surface of his gorgeous, upscale health club, there’s plenty of simmering lust and rage. The beautiful people have some ugly secrets. Once again, Nick gets caught up in solving a mystery when he’d much rather be at home enjoying a gourmet meal with his partner Stefan. Witty and provocative, Hot Rocks offers fans of the Nick Hoffman series another voyage with one of the mystery world’s funniest amateur sleuths. PRAISE FOR THE NICK HOFFMAN SERIES “A maliciously funny campus mystery.” New York Times Book Review “Clever and sharp social satire.” Los Angeles Times “The perfect book to take away for a weekend in the country… a genuinely funny modern comedy of manners.” Washington Post Book World “A delightful take on death in the halls of academia.” Boston Globe “I’ve developed a crush on Lev Raphael’s witty, literate, cheerfully satirical Nick Hoffman mysteries.” Books To Watch Out For “Marvelous humor and satisfying mystery…wickedly fun.” Drood Review of Mystery “Stylish literary mystery…witty, impeccably written.” Mystery Review “Bright, breezy, and laugh-aloud funny.” Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine

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State University of Michigan English professor Nick Hoffman stumbles on the corpse of Vlado Zamaria, the ruthless head trainer at the Michigan Muscle health club, in a steam room. Nick and his pal, Juno Dromgoole, team up once again to ferret out the killer, for whom there's no shortage of suspects: Vlado's bland, dutiful wife plus a plethora of actual and wanna-be lovers and jealous trainers. Nick manages a too-easy sneak peek into Zamaria's unlocked office, finding secrets that eventually reveal the murderer.

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• Fiction.

Other Editions

• Hot rocks: a Nick Hoffman mysteryJohn Daniel & Co.2007-01-01
• Hot RocksPaperbackPerseverance Press2007-04-15