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Humorous mystery
Book #1 in the Lethal in Lace Series
The Pauline Sokol Mystery Series Book #1
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
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
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
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
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.

Welcome to my website! Book #6 in the Pauline Sokol Series now available here! I now have three more books available for purchase. Check them out! Click the "Buy Now" button below each cover to order. (also available on Amazon-Kindle edition)

Jagger or ER Dano?????

DEAD ON ARRIVAL Book #6 in The Pauline Sokol Mystery Series can be purchased right here as an ebook!

Blurb: Normally, insurance fraud investigator Pauline Sokol likes to keep her feet firmly on the ground. But her latest undercover assignment has the aero-phobic ex-nurse flying high--as she takes off to ground a land-and-air ambulance company that’s been doing some rather flighty billing. Even having ER Dano, the company’s best (and hottest!) paramedic in the copter seat next to her isn’t enough to soothe her queasy tummy.

But her insides really start doing loop-de-loops when one of the company’s owners is brutally murdered--and Pauline starts receiving creepy phone calls…from the killer! Suddenly the air looks a lot safer than the ground. And if Pauline doesn’t crack this case soon, even mouth-to-mouth from her favorite paramedic won’t be enough to revive her.

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Talk about an "OOPS" moment! Only Lori could come up with this one. Buy the ebook at http://www.diversionbooks.com/ebooks?title=&field_author_nid=39

Veteran Lori's Air Force days come to life in this reunion story! E-book available at: http://www.diversionbooks.com/ebooks?title=&field_author_nid=39

A romantic story set in sultry, steamy New Orleans! Available as an ebook from: http://www.diversionbooks.com/ebooks?title=&field_author_nid=39


Laughter is the only way to survive so purchase Lori's humorous novella,
IF THIS IS A SLICE OF LIFE...I AM ON A DIET!

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Dr. Robin Hood--a Jagger and Pauline story! Take another "interesting/exciting/romantic adventure with Pauline and, yum...Jagger! Click on the Buy Now button below and for $2.00 you can read about another mess Pauline gets herself into while doing her job--this one involves a trip to the doctor's with Jagger posing as her...husband. Yikes! Please note:this story was written before Dead Weight. An epilogue will be available soon.








Pauline Sokol is back!!!!!!

The complete book #7 in the Pauline and Jagger series, called DEAD WEIGHT, is now available below as a PDF ebook. It was a blast to write and I do love those characters!

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DEAD WEIGHT Read about it!
Pauline Sokol has spent the last six months learning how to be a kick ass medical insurance fraud investigator from her partner Jagger. Not only that, but she’s spent that time wondering if all of those smoldering looks and last minute rescues mean that he’s interested in her as more than a colleague. No time to worry about that though. Her boss is finally letting her investigate in the field without Jagger, though Goldie finagles his way into the case in Jagger’s place. But this is a big case and two heads may be better than one…

Pauline is sent to New Mexico to a weight loss clinic to find out why the insurance claims are so high. Despite the beautiful western setting in the Sacramento Mountains, Pauline has an uneasy feeling about the Rancho Mirage Slenderizing Clinic. Mirage is right. Even the largest patrons are leaving measuring about half of the size they were when they arrived—and in remarkably fast time.

Size four Pauline would raise eyebrows at such a clinic, but a size 22 Pauline would be just another patient. Donning a body suit, Pauline enters the clinic to see what’s going on. Working cases have always been fun, but having to eat celery, watercress, and fat-free everything does not fall under that category. She and Goldie manage to stash some goodies in their bungalow, but when they get busted it isn’t pretty.

Pauline’s investigation turns up plenty of incriminating facts but nothing is more daunting to her as her roommate—you won’t believe who that is!


New Lori Releases! Click on "My Works" above for blurbs of these books.

Here are three new releases for Lori. Available on Amazon. Note the hot, hunky, heroes on the covers above! Yum! The titles are: Oops! Time Suspended and Do You Take This Man...Again?

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Spanky is a character in the Pauline Sokol Series...and will live on forever. Lori lost the "real" Spanky this past March. Sniff...

Check out my military anthology's at http:/​/​www.holidayop.us/​About%20Us.htm It's called Mission Mistletoe! A Portion of the Proceeds from the Sale of Each Book is donated to the SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION. www.specialops.org “The mission of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation is to provide full scholarship grants and educational and family counseling to the surviving children of special operations people who die in operational or training missions and immediate financial assistance to severely wounded special operations people and their families.”

Also, Lani's Makeshift Family just came out and is available from http:/​/​www.thewildrosepress.com/​contemporary-contemporary-sweet-c-175_143.html?alpha_filter_id=0&filter_id=588&sort=7a&zenid=6780a389812f37be686c1faa40fb95e4


With the release of Lani's Makeshift Family, I hit the 21 books published mark!

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, A DOSE OF MURDER, made the 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 salable in today’s market—and all damn fun to read!
Feel free to take a look around!