One Dead Under the Cuckoo's Nest: A Pauline Sokol Mystery (Pauline Sokol Mysteries)

when Pauline Sokol Goes Undercover To Investigate Brokers Who Match Psychiatric Patients With Treatment Facilities For High Dollar Bounties, She Suddenly Finds Herself Confined Against Her Will In A Mental Hospital Run By Nuns! Of Course, Convincing The Staff That She's Not Crazy Is Like Convincing A Jailer That She's Innocent, So Pauline Decides To Use The Time To Her Advantage And Continues With Her Investigation. Just As She Starts To Immerse Herself In This Strange World And Make Some Headway, Her Hunky Cohort Jagger Shows Up. When Jagger Won't Help Her Escape, Pauline Knows That She's In Deeper Than She Ever Imagined And Her Only Hope Is The Help Of Her Colorful And Off Kilter New Friends – Her Fellow Patients. But When A Crooked Cross Dressing Nun Winds Up Dead, Pauline Knows That Only Her Wits Can Save Her From A Killer That's Committed To Silencing Her...permanently. publishers Weekly in Avocato's Third Comic Pauline Sokol Mystery (after The Stiff And The Dead), The Ex-nurse Turned Insurance Fraud Investigator Finds Herself Drugged, Kidnapped And Locked In A Mental Institution Under A Fictitious Name. Enter Enigmatic Jagger, Who's Masquerading As A Doctor This Time Around And, As Usual, Doesn't Tell Pauline Much Except That She's Supposed To Investigate A Scam Involving The Placement Of Mental Patients For Insurance Bounty Money. Surrounded As She Is By Oddball Inmates And Nuns With French Manicures, It's A Tough Call To Determine Who's Bonkers And Who's Not. When One Of The Nuns Ends Up Impaled On A Broom Handle And A Naked Patient Gets A Little Too Friendly, Jagger Tries To Pull Pauline From The Case, But Our Spunky Heroine Has Ideas Of Her Own. While There's More Perky Narrative Than Actual Sleuthing, Readers Who Were Charmed By The Eccentric Characters From Previous Books-pauline's Cross-dressing Roommates, Polish Family Members And Sleazy Boss Fabio-will Find This Entry Every Bit As Delightful. Agents, Jay Poyner And Erica Orloff. (oct.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. Nurse-turned-insurance fraud detective Pauline Sokol's current undercover investigation into an psychiatric scam goes badly awry when she is forcibly committed to a mental institution, where she must not only find a way to escape from the looney bin, but also avoid a busy killer in the process "This won't hurt." I looked at my well-meaning best friend and roommate, Miles Scarpello, and then snorted immediately after he spoke the foolish words.