The Barnes & Noble Review
This Sharon McCone mystery is a fast-paced, suspenseful story with a dot-com twist. After her brother, the ever-elusive Joey, commits suicide, Sharon agonizes over his wasted life and senseless death. Now Joey's ashes are scattered over the restless sea, and Sharon plans to bury her fury and grief in her work. Unfortunately, she's investigating the death of promising young journalist Roger Nagazawa for an upcoming wrongful-death civil suit. And it hits all too close to home: Like Joey, Roger was an underachiever in a family of overachievers. He'd recently been working at an upscale online magazine called Insite, dedicated to chronicling whatever was new and hip in the Bay Area. His family didn't want to accept the possibility that, faced with the brutal working conditions at Insite -- long hours, cutthroat competition, and outright hazing -- Roger had apparently chosen to leap from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. To her surprise, the more Sharon learns about Roger and Insite, the more she begins to suspect that the young man's suicide might really be a murder -- and more. If she's right, solving this case will be anything but simple. This time, justice will depend on Sharon's ability to come up with the right balance of dot-com expertise, investigative skill, and good old-fashioned nerve as she tracks down a killer who is as cold and calculating as any computer. Sue Stone