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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Lev Raphael

1954

Lev Raphael was born and raised in New York City, the son of Holocaust survivors. He received his MFA in Creative Writing and English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Michigan State University. He taught English, creative writing, Holocaust studies, and other topics at the university level for 13 years before leaving teaching in 1988 to write and review full-time.