Hysterical, mysterious, romantic books that only Lori can write!

Time Suspended. A paranormal romance set in steamy New Orleans!


Oops! A Romantic Comedy

Want to see Pauline and Jagger back? Lots of fans are writing to their favorite publishers to ask them to publish the next Pauline book, so feel free to do that. One publisher the series would fit is St. Martin's Press/​ Minotaur Books 175 5th Avenue NY, NY 10010


Meet best-selling author Lori Avocato

CLICK ON "MY WORKS" UP ABOVE TO READ ALL ABOUT LORI'S BOOKS AND THE AVAILABLE EXCERPTS!


Military romance story!

New cover! Release date December 2009. Title, Lani's Makeshift Family

Lori's lastest release on sale NOW!

October, 2009 release!

Welcome to the world of best-selling author, Lori Avocato, where she truly believes that “laughter is the best medicine" and it shows in her work!


This is darling Spanky, who stars as the co-owned dog of Pauline, Miles and Goldie--Please don't tell the Spankster that it's only fiction!

Extra! Extra! I am starting to get back into my writing full swing with a NEW series so stay tuned for more info. All I can say is, it may involve lingerie...er...perhaps a thong! LOL I'm calling it "Lethal in Lace." Look to the right side of this page and click on Wicktoria's Secret to read an excerpt! Wicktoria is a Polish heroine--and girl after my own heart. Go kick-ass heroines!


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?

http:/​/​www.amazon.com/​dp/​B003T0H83U
http:/​/​www.amazon.com/​dp/​B003T0H7YK


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!


Thanks for visiting! As you can see, I have several books available for purchase up above. I hope you enjoy them!

I'm still working on several other stories and still have hopes of bringing Pauline and Jagger back! Keep your fingers crossed.


When you need a good laugh, take a look at my poor Spanky bathing in the kitchen spa. Good Lord!

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Selected Works-Click on red title for excerpt

Humorous mystery
Wicktoria's Secret
Book #1 in the Lethal in Lace Series
The Pauline Sokol Mystery Series Book #1
A Dose of Murder
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
The Stiff and the Dead
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
One Dead Under the Cuckoo's Nest
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
Deep Sea Dead
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
Nip Tuck Dead
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.

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