Synopses & Reviews
Pat Foy leads a charmed life. She has a close-knit family, an expensive home, and a satisfying career as a landscape designer. She also reads mystery novels all the time-yet she cant see what is happening right in front of her eyes, and is astonished when her husband, Frank, is arrested for accounting fraud at LinkAge, the huge telecommunications firm that employs him. “How could anything that boring be illegal?” she wonders. The scandal hits the press and threatens to drain the Foys bank account, send Frank to prison, and tear their family apart.
Frank claims that fudging the numbers is standard practice in todays go-go business atmosphere. Everyone does it, or would if he could. Americans love recklessness, he insists. They admire scalawags. Pat does too-at least in novels. And its hard for Pat to imagine who has suffered from LinkAges bankruptcy. So she decides to search out the victims, and finds more than she bargained for. At first she thinks that all she has to do to make amends is whip out her checkbook. What she doesnt know is that events have already begun to spin out of control, and that the future holds as many twists and turns as any of the whodunits she has read.
Jacqueline Careys whip-smart and irresistibly sly novel deftly portrays the dire costs of todays corporate culture of runaway greed-and brings to life a fractured landscape filled with CEOs-turned-robber barons, privileged lives punctured by wretched excess, and personal relationships put to the ultimate test.
Synopsis
Landscape designer and mystery novel enthusiast Pat Foy has the perfect life until her husband is arrested for accounting fraud at his firm. For help, she turns to two friends, both mystery novelists, in this smart, funny portrait of a family in the aftermath of a corporate scandal.
About the Author
Jacqueline Careys previous books include Good Gossip, part of which appeared in The New Yorker, and The Crossley Baby, which garnered Carey a Guggenheim Fellowship. She used to write a mystery column for Salon.com. Carey lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, the writer Ian Frazier, and their two children.