A Woman's Place - Hardcover

Grant, Linda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 068419631X ISBN 13: 9780684196312

Publisher: Scribner, 1994

Synopsis

San Francisco private eye Catherine Sayler and her partner, Jesse Price, are called in by a computer firm to investigate high-tech sexual harassment that soon turns deadly

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Expertly accelerated tension holds the reader's attention as San Francisco PI Catherine Sayler confronts sexism--in the extreme--in the '90s workplace. Allen Leggett, CEO of Systech, a software development firm with sexual harassment problems, hires Catherine and Jesse, her (male) business partner, to find "one guy--and it has to be a salesman, not a programmer" to make an example of. Both enter the workplace as new employees. Jesse checks out the obscene e-mail messages on the computer system as Catherine searches for the harasser(s) among an assortment of gleefully sexist computer cowboys. She begins to suspect that more than crude jokes may be going on when Systech manager Sheila Wainwright hints that she is out for "bigger game" than a prankster and when Leggett stands by a smarmy v-p who dismisses photos of women being tortured as "boys-will-be-boys stuff"--right up to the sadistic murder of a female employee. By escalating from the everyday to the barely imaginable, Grant ( Love nor Money ) makes the most of her material, registering her points on issues while keeping entertainment the focus of her story.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Gone undercover on the track of a persistent sexual harasser threatening the few mid-level women at the computer firm Systech, San Francisco corporate-security specialist Catherine Sayler (Love Nor Money, 1991, etc.) soon finds that (1) anti-female sentiment at Systech goes a lot deeper than the resentments of KeeGo, the manly, higher-tech concern Systech's just gobbled up; (2) whoever is making the Systech wires hum with scary words and pictures is a genuine sicko who won't stop at murder; and (3) she's become the sicko's latest pin-up girl. Catherine fixes on abusive hunk Scott Jorgenson (VP/Sales) as the likely inside man in a robbery scheme she's gotten wind of, and a stakeout nets another thief who obligingly implicates Jorgenson, but is the inside man necessarily the killer? And when Jorgenson, out on bail, disappears from his boat, should Catherine be relieved or terrified? Genuinely sensitive on the ways ordinary sexist pranks foster the power of psychotic victimizers. Otherwise: minimal detection, illogical plotting, and a vanilla psycho as featureless as Catherine herself. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

San Francisco private eye Catherine Sayler specializes in corporate security. Working undercover as a telecommunications expert with a prestigious banking software firm, Catherine hopes to find the source of sexually harassing E-mail, practical "jokes," and pornographic interoffice "memos." Tensions increase when murder strikes the office and all indications point to Catherine as the next victim. With the aid of her police detective ex-husband and her computer-whiz partner, Jesse, she redoubles her efforts to expose the vicious employee. Grant's breezy, relatively light-weight style and plucky heroine should interest undemanding readers.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 068419631X
• ISBN 13: 9780684196312
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 261