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The Write Way to Murder: A Marlene Dreyfus Technical Writer Mystery
Marlene Dreyfus, an expert technical writer for a cutting-edge Phoenix aerospace firm, is drawn into a maelstrom of terror when her colleague Sam Garfield is found dead in a company hallway. Sam is covered in blood, with a huge knife sticking in his back. Everyone is under suspicion as Security starts to investigate. Why was Sam Garfield killed? Was he involved in industrial espionage? Was he selling high tech secrets to foreign agents? Or had he uncovered the real perpetrator? Who will be next? Marlene and her colleagues start looking over their shoulders-and at each other. Marlene is romanticallyh interested in engineer Kevin Bronson-could he know more than he lets on? Assigned to replace Sam as project chief for a multi-million dollar proposal, Kevin has much to gain by Sam's death. But suspects abound, and the clock is ticking. With so many baffling leads and dead ends, Marlene must find the killer before he (or she) strikes again. Besides murder and love at work, Marlene has a home life to deal with. Daughters Fran and Cynthia add to Marlene's trials. Where did Bruce Underwood, Fran's fiancee, get the money for the mega-mansion he's building in Scottsdale? Why does Cynthia support her sister's former stalker? From the acclaimed author of the Ruthie Kantor Morris Pharmacy Sleuth Series (Rx for Murder, Deadly Rx, Rx Alibi, etc.) comes a new female sleuth based on the author's years of experience in the exciting aerospace industry."
110 pages, Paperback
First published July 23, 2012
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March 21, 2016
This is the only novel I could find to fulfill my popsugar-dot-com challenge for "a book whose protagonist has your occupation." Technical writers are few and far between in the literary world!
Renee Horowitz nailed the bureaucracy and blandness of structured corporate cubicle life, and there's a humorous moment when an engineer complains to Marlene: "I don't have much use for tech writers, always changing my words around when I know exactly what I meant to write." And then Alan, a fellow tech writer, also complains to Marlene: "The engineers look down on us, never have the information we need on time, and management doesn't understand how essential we writers are."
Marlene herself has a cynical attitude toward pretty much everyone, and she takes it upon herself to solve the murder. The solution is not altogether surprising.
Still, even with the accurate descriptions of a highly regulated workplace, I wish that Marlene herself would have been less rigid in her attitudes and suspicions. I see tech writers as more of a bridge for communication across an organization. I don't know of anyone who would kill to make a deadline... well, except maybe people in the sales department... :-)
Renee Horowitz nailed the bureaucracy and blandness of structured corporate cubicle life, and there's a humorous moment when an engineer complains to Marlene: "I don't have much use for tech writers, always changing my words around when I know exactly what I meant to write." And then Alan, a fellow tech writer, also complains to Marlene: "The engineers look down on us, never have the information we need on time, and management doesn't understand how essential we writers are."
Marlene herself has a cynical attitude toward pretty much everyone, and she takes it upon herself to solve the murder. The solution is not altogether surprising.
Still, even with the accurate descriptions of a highly regulated workplace, I wish that Marlene herself would have been less rigid in her attitudes and suspicions. I see tech writers as more of a bridge for communication across an organization. I don't know of anyone who would kill to make a deadline... well, except maybe people in the sales department... :-)
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