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

Lori Avocato

HarperCollins, Sep 27, 2005 - Fiction - 352 pages

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.

What people are saying

Review: One Dead Under the Cuckoo's Nest (Pauline Sokol #3)

User Review  - Linda - Goodreads

I enjoyed this Pauline Sokol mystery. The only thing I didn't like was that at times the amount of characters was overwhelming to keep track of. The story was well written and you really felt for the characters.

Review: One Dead Under the Cuckoo's Nest (Pauline Sokol #3)

User Review  - Kristen - Goodreads

In One Dead Under the Cuckoo's Nest, Pauline Sokol didn't know what she'd gotten herself into, when someone mistakes her for someone else. She lands in the loony bin. Things aren't what they seem, as ...

About the author

After serving in the Air Force as a registered nurse, Lori Avocato decided to give up nursing to write fiction. She lives in New England and is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, PASIC, NINC, Romance Writers of America, the Author's Guild, and Sisters in Crime. She's raising two teenage sons (heaven help her!), and one darling dog, Spanky. Lori is the author of six novels featuring Pauline Sokol: A Dose of Murder; The Stiff and the Dead; One Dead Under the Cuckoo's Nest; Deep Sea Dead; Nip, Tuck, Dead; and Dead on Arrival.

Bibliographic information

• Title: One Dead Under the Cuckoo's Nest: A Pauline Sokol Mystery; Avon mystery; Pauline Sokol Mysteries Series, Lori Avocato
• Author: Lori Avocato
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 2005
• ISBN: 0060731672, 9780060731670
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Contemporary Women; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths