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Dating Games and Match Making Fiction Stars

Page Modified: June 19, 2009

Fiction (all genres) about dating and match making.

Fiction

• The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
  Author: Bank, Melissa
  Publisher: Viking $ 23.95 ISBN: 067088300x Date: 1999
  Kirkus Boooklist PW
  As it explores the life lessons of Jane, the contemporary American Everywoman--who combines the charm of Bridget Jones, the vulnerability of Ally McBeal, and the wit of Lorrie Moore--The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing offers wise, poignant, and laugh-out-loud insight.
  Updated 7.25.05
• Death Match
  Author: Child, Lincoln
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385506708 Date: 2004
  Kirkus
  In Child's latest thriller, former FBI forensic psychologist Christopher Lash is asked to investigate when seemingly perfect young couples begin committing double-suicides. The case leads him to a high-tech matchmaking company and brings him face-to-face with his own demons.
  Updated 3.11.04
• Bet Me
  Author: Crusie, Jennifer
  Publisher: St Martins $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312303467 Date: 2004
  Kirkus
  The biggest gamble of all is true love in this story about long shots, risk management, and great shoes--the best novel yet from the author of Faking It.
  Suggested Reading: Best Bets | Romance Stars
  Updated 12.10.03
• Blind Date
  Author: Fyfield, Frances
  Publisher: Viking List Price: $ 21.95 ISBN: 0670878898 Date: 1998
  LJ
  A complicated, prickly ex-police detective, recovering from a brutal attack of deadly acid, tracks her quarry through a London peopled the pathetic and the poisonous, as she heads for something more chilling than loneliness, more savage than self-doubt.
  
• Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys
  Author: Garcia, Eric
  Publisher: Regan $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060730315 Date: 2004
  Sex and the City meets Misery in this shockingly funny, original, dead-onsatire of the dating scene in Los Angeles.
  Updated 7.25.05
• How to Meet Cute Boys
  Author: Kizis, Deanna
  Publisher: Warner $ 21.95 ISBN: 0446530727 Date: 2003
  Booklist
  This hilarious work of women's fiction is about a young woman writing for a women's magazine who's experiencing the L.A. dating scene. This book depicts itself as a "novelzine," where the protagonist's magazine articles are relevantly interspersed throughout the novel.
  Suggested Reading: Chicklit Stars
  Updated 9.22.03
• Whiskey Sour
  Author: Konrath, J.A.
  Publisher: Hyperion $ 21.95 ISBN: 1401300871 Date: 2004
  PW
  Between avoiding the FBI and its moronic profiling computer, joining a dating service, mixing it up with street thugs, and parrying the advances of an uncouth P.I., Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels must find a frightening killer who calls himself "The Gingerbread Man."
  Suggested Reading: Debuts| Dating Stars | Rhyming Stars
  Updated 2.1.05
• Dating Dead Men
  Author: Kozak, Harley Jane
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 22.95 ISBN: 0385510187 Date: 2004
  LJ Kirkus PW
  Kozak's debut novel is a smart, funny, fast-paced mystery in the tradition of Janet Evanovich featuring greeting card artist and small business owner Wollie Shelley, a woman who's looking for love--and job satisfaction--in all the wrong places when she literally stumbles across a murder that irrevocably changes her life (in some ways, for the better).
  Suggested Reading: Fiction & Mystery Debuts | All Stars | If You Like Janet Evanovich
  Updated 12.8.03
• Dating Is Murder
  Author: Kozak, Harley Jane
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 19.95 ISBN: 0385510349 Date: 2005
  LJ Kirkus PW
  With Dating Is Murder, Kozak delivers another sparkling treasure, a laugh-out-loud funny, literate mystery for readers of Janet Evanovich and Sue Grafton, and for Kozak's own growing legion of fans.
  Suggested Reading: If You Like Janet Evanovich | All Stars
  Updated 2.7.05
• It's My F***ing Birthday
  Author: Markoe, Merrill
  Publisher: Villard $21.95 ISBN: 0375507124 Date: 2002
  PW
  Legendary comedy writer Merrill Markoe makes her fiction debut in this scathingly funny tale of an L.A. woman's ongoing quest to find happiness.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts
  Updated 1/24/02
• Boaz Brown
  Author: Stimpson, Michelle
  Publisher: Walk Worthy $ 22.95 ISBN:0446532479 Date: 2004
  LJ
  Prejudices that exist in the African-American church are addressed in this daring debut novel about a young Christian woman who finds her own racist attitudes--as well as those of her family, friends, and church--challenged when she is drawn to a man of a different race.
  Suggested Reading: African American Stars | Christian Fiction Stars | Debuts
  Updated 6.1.04