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Deeanna and James, low-level managers, have nothing in common except their jobs in one link of a huge national books-and-media chain and a talent for sarcasm. Deeanna, an escapee from corporate life, longs to write a publishable mystery novel. Instead she finds herself living through a real-life crime wave, including embezzlement and murder. Make that murders, plural. She and James use their nosy natures to investigate the backstage worlds of retail, publishing, media, and how to attract an impossibly delicious police detective before Deeanna decides being a mystery author probably isn't her forte.