Meet best-selling author Lori Avocato

Hysterical, mysterious, romantic books that only Lori can write!

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Future books:

HEAVEN ON EARTH
Release date: October, 2009

LANI'S MAKESHIFT FAMILY
Release date: December, 2009


October, 2009 release!

Welcome to the world of best-selling author, Lori Avocato, where she truly believes that “laughter is the best medicine" and it shows in her work!

Often I get asked how I ended up an author after a career as a registered nurse. Good question. Wish I knew the answer! All I can tell you is that after serving in the Air Force as a registered nurse, I decided to switch careers and now I write a humorous mystery series for Avon Books.
I was always the type of reader who looked at a novel and thought: I could do that. I could write a book! Ha! Not as easy as I thought. I’m a Yankee from New England here I landed again after 20 years of travel. I’m a card-carrying member of Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America (served on the Board of Directors of the CT chapter for eight years), The Author’s Guild and Sisters in Crime. Guys, I gotta tell you, I really believe that we all need a great entertaining read and humor always helps. Thus the Pauline Sokol Mystery Series,in which a burned out nurse becomes a medical insurance fraud investigator, was born. It’s a perfect medium for my quick wit and amusing, believable characters.
The first book of the series, ADOSE OF MURDER, madethe best-selling suspense/thriller list on Amazon(Alongside the likes of Stephen King!) and placed in the Reviewers International Organizations award of excellent for debut novel. Yippee! Great start!
Pauline is named after my grandmother,who was a real kick-ass lady! Grandma died on her birthday at the age of 93 and A Dose of Murder came out on her birthday many years later! What karma! DEAD ON ARRIVAL, about ambulance fraud and introducing a new hunk, ER Dano, came out July 2007. All books of the series are still available.
Drop me a note and let me know how you like the series. Lavocato@cox.net
The Pauline Sokol Mystery Series has been touted as: “A thirty-something House meets Scrubs meets female Monk” series. Each novel is a wonderful medical-world story enlivened by an exceptionally fun and sassy voice about a burned out registered nurse who becomes a medical insurance fraud investigator only to be yanked back into the nursing field by an experienced hunk of an investigator who she just can’t say no to--until
she keeps stumbling upon dead bodies. Humor, suspense, mystery and sex--all saleable in today’s market—and all damn fun to read!
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Thanks for visiting! As you can see, I have several books available for purchase up above. I hope you enjoy them!

I'm still working on several other stories and still have hopes of bringing Pauline and Jagger back! Keep your fingers crossed.

Check my daily blog for updates and if you need a laugh for the day. www.loriavocato.com/blog

AND, I have a new blog and website. I'm rather an "expert" about online dating so I'll have tips and a website soon. In the meantime, check out the new blog and leave a comment! Anyone you know who wants to do online dating, or is afraid to, have them check it out too.:http://confessionsofaserialfirstdater.blogspot.com/Twitter: http://twitter.com/datinggurulori Non-fiction: http://www.datingguruloriavocato.com/


This is darling Spanky, who stars as the co-owned dog of Pauline, Miles and Goldie--Please don't tell the Spankster that it's only fiction!

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Selected Works-Click on red title for excerpt

The Pauline Sokol Mystery Series Book #1
A Dose of Murder
The first book in The Pauline Sokol Mysteries, A Dose of Murder, is a wonderful medical-world story enlivened by an exceptionally fun and sassy voice. In it, a burned out registered nurse becomes a medical insurance fraud investigator only to be yanked back into the nursing field by an experienced hunk of an investigator who she just can’t say no to--until she stumbles upon two dead bodies.
The Pauline Sokol Mystery Series Book #2
The Stiff and the Dead
Pauline Sokol, ex-RN turned medical insurance fraud investigator finds herself embroiled in a scam of senior citizens...and Viagra fraud. If that isn’t bad enough, one of the old geezers has fallen for her...and two have mysteriously departed from this world.
The Pauline Sokol Mystery Series Book #3
One Dead Under the Cuckoo's Nest
Ex-RN Pauline Sokol finds herself confined against her will in a psychiatric hospital when she goes undercover to investigate fraudulent brokers who match patients with treatment facilities--for a bounty as high as $4000.00 a head. A master plan of escape ensues when “doctor” Jagger shows up...until the broker is found dead.
The Pauline Sokol Mystery Series Book #4
Deep Sea Dead
Blurb: Sailing over the bounty seas is not the ideal case for ex-RN Pauline Sokol who has never been out of New England. But when her sleazy boss, Fabio Scarpello, offers her the chance to work a case on The Golden Dolphin--sailing through the Bermuda Triangle is the least of her problems. Murder, mayhem and a missing nurse take center stage while Pauline is trapped on the ship, her roommate murdered, and Pauline’s name is next on the list.
The Pauline Sokol Mystery Series Book #5
Nip Tuck Dead
For her latest case, Pauline Sokol is assigned to investigate plastic surgery fraud in swanky Newport, Rhode Island. To get inside the exclusive “spa”, she must go undercover as a private duty nurse. Now all she needs is a suitable well-heeled patient. Luckily, her best friend and colorful co-worker Goldie fits the bill (and the high heels), and he selflessly volunteers for a nose job. Once she’s infiltrated this surgical playground for the rich and spoiled, Pauline discovers that someone in the practice is scamming the insurance companies. More than a few of these jet setters have become addicted to plastic surgery and many of the women’s husbands have refused to pay for any more elective “changes.” So someone is making up diagnoses so the (inflated) costs are covered without anyone being the wiser. A “nose job” has now become a “repair of a deviated septum for better breathing.” But a simple case of semantics soon turns deadly when a male secretary’s body is found floating fifty feet below the jagged ocean cliff. As she struggles to keep herself out of danger, Pauline can’t believe her non-altered eyes when the enigmatic Jagger shows up to at the B&B where she’s staying. But even her hunky cohort can’t keep her safe when a simple case of going under the knife is anything but cut and dried.

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