Both Amazon and Barnes and Noble offer To Catch a Bad Guy (Janet Maple Series Book 1) for free (always an attractive feature) but what caught my attention was the cover. Who could resist such a cute dog?
Janet Maple has a new job as Assistant General Counsel at Bostoff Securities, working for her old friend and semi-rival Lisa. Once Janet arrives she quickly wonders why the company hired her. Lisa herself isn’t busy and Janet has nothing to do. Then external lawyer Tom Wyman shows up to zip her through Bostoff’s legal structure – which is extraordinarily complex – and Janet begins to wonder just what is going on at Bostoff.
Janet does not want to rock the boat, but being a smart lady recognizes that she, as a lawyer for the brokerage, is on the hook for the firm’s legal actions and discovers the firm is missing client paperwork. Management tells her to to forget about it, but Janet suspects something is wrong, and with her sense for crooked books honed after years in the New York District Attorney’s office she senses things aren’t quite as rosy as they appear.
Janet quickly finds herself embroiled with the cute IT guy, dodging Tom Wyman, digging just a bit under the surface, and worried sick about her friend Lisa and Lisa’s fiance.
Overall To Catch A Bad Guy is cute, fun, a fast read that catches your imagination. The characters are interesting and I felt for Janet once she realized she was in a sticky situation. Don’t expect deep character building or complex themes but do expect a fun couple of hours.
Author Marie Astor used To Catch a Bad Guy (Janet Maple Series Book 1) to set the stage for a couple of sequels featuring the same characters, the budding romances and have our friends take care of the bad guys. I enjoyed To Catch a Bad Guy enough that I purchased two of the follow up novels.
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