Signet, Oct 2004, 6.50, 288 pp.
ISBN: 0451213327
Helen Hawthorne caught her unemployed husband having sex with their next door neighbor and in a rage she wrecked his SUV. The judge ordered her to pay alimony because her spouse spent the last few years taking care of her and their home while she earned a six figure income. An irate Helen refuses to pay one cent so she leaves St. Louis, relocating in Fort Lauderdale where she accepts dead end jobs that pay under the table.
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Her current job is a telemarketer at Tank Titan System Cleaner where the callers who pick up curse, hang up, and generally humiliate her because they think she is a low life. During a phone survey with Hank Asparth, he places the instrument down without hanging up; thus she overhears him arguing with a woman until she realizes that he strangled her. Helen calls the police, but they find nothing suspicions. She can't let it go so she calls the victim's sister Savannah to only to learn her sister has been missing for several days. Helen believes that Savannah's sister Laredo is dead and plans to learn the truth.
She chose to become an investigator because she believes in justice and opts to expose herself to catch a killer. From going topless to stealing from the mob, this protagonist will do whatever it takes to prove Hank killed Laredo.
Harriet Klausner
The review of this Book prepared by Harriet Klausner
