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Who would want George Ashby dead? How about Lena, his bitter ex-wife, a brilliant woman who founded the New Age software company Growing Light only to have Ashby take it away from her? Or maybe Mike Thompson, the company's power-hungry vice-president who has endured Ashby's eccentricities for much too long? The staff of Growing Light -- Carein, for whom life hasn't been the same since the Summer of Love, disaffected engineer Jimi Hendrix Johannsen, Audrey the bookkeeper who isn't too good with numbers, and the others -- sure don't seem to be too fond of George, but their bitterness hardly seems to rival that of Growing Light's ex-employees, all of whom would be glad to see the SOB done in. Who would want Ashby dead? Who wouldn't?
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From Publishers Weekly:
This spirited debut mystery mines California's New Age culture--neatly skewering its tendency toward overinflation--for comedy, romance and a puzzling murder. On her first day of work at Growing Light, a northern California firm that produces horticultural software, young widow Anne Munro discovers the body of her boss, George Ashby, with a knife in the back. The police find a note in Anne's tote bag suggesting she killed him. To prove her innocence to the suspicious sheriff, Ann enlists the help of his sympathetic lieutenant and hunts down company secrets. Claims to company ownership are made by the firm's vice-president and by the new widow, who was about to divorce the victim. Further complications are added by the staff of ex-hippies and former flower children who include mantra-muttering Carein, an ex-convict shipping clerk and a chief engineer named Jimi Hendrix Johannsen. Anne also encounters a group of disgruntled former employees who meet weekly at a local diner and an angry programmer who says the firm's main product was stolen from him. A cast of outrageous and/or sympathetic characters and a deftly handled plot will capture readers' hearts.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews:
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Lake Harris County, California, may be a made-up place, but Growing Light, the horticultural software company located there, feels like the ultimate Marin workplace--from its New Age president George Ashby (``re-creating what `working' means'') to its numerically challenged bookkeeper Audrey Lincoln (``I can't say what he called you, but it's not very, like, self-actualizing''). On single mom Anne Munro's first day of work, George is murdered shortly after he starts the rumor that her late husband was a substance abuser, and the dimwitted sheriff goes after her with both barrels. The mystery of who killed George is routine in a pleasantly old-fashioned way, but the interludes with the likes of beer-drinking aura cleanser Rev. Hankins (``what is, is'') and ever-stoned EverLife notary John Lifeblood lift this first novel above, like, the ordinary. Bright and funny--a welcome debut. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherE-Rights/E-Reads Ltd
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0759257302
- ISBN 13 9780759257306
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages182
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