Single
and nearing thirty-six, Dianne Evans, computer specialist for the US Justice
Department, is a compulsive perfectionist. Discovering missing material from
one of the files she was transposing into the department’s new database, she
was reluctant to bring it to the attention of Sam Goldman, her new supervisor,
and with good reason. She had recently been transferred to Justice from IRS
after she insisted that there was an inaccuracy in the new IRS auditing program
she had been working on. Her IRS supervisor had disagreed and, rather than put
up with Dianne’s insistence that the program was flawed, arranged to have
Dianne, whom she considered to be a troublemaker, transferred with excellent
references to the Justice Department where they desperately needed programmers
with high security clearance.
Sam
Goldman, Dianne’s new supervisor, was happy to get her. Approaching retirement,
Sam felt the transposing of Justice’s files into the new database would be the
largest assignment of his career, and most likely the last. Dianne’s obsession
with accuracy could only benefit the program.
Partway
into the transposition, Dianne discovered an empty file with the heading “M.
Brutus.” She tried unsuccessfully to ignore it and continue, but she couldn’t
let go. How could she proceed when she was responsible for the work? It had to
be accurate. Gathering up the sections of the material she was copying that had
omissions, she went directly to Goldman’s office. When she pointed out the file
with the missing data, he recognized that it was an active WITSEC (Witness
Security Program) file. This was the beginning of Dianne’s dilemma and the
dangerous consequences that caused a threat to her life and the start of a
lasting romance.
I
love a good mystery. This book was a bit
like Columbo. You knew from the
beginning who was stalking Dianne over this file, but you didn’t know exactly
why this file caused such a flap until the end.
Nor did you know whether she would survive. After all…curiosity killed the cat. On the other hand, to pull out all the
adages, cats have nine lives, and Dianne starts to seem awfully
cat-like toward the end of the book when she survives more than one attempt on
her life.
Dianne’s
Dilemma was a pretty good read and it did keep me turning the pages, but I also
tended to yell at her stalker. Which
part of harassing the woman kept her on the case did he not get? Every time she decided to let it go and move
on, he did something else to her or someone around her that made her mad,
caused her to think something else must be going on, and dig deeper. If he’d just left her alone, she would have
turned the thing over to her boss and dropped it. But then, I guess Mr. Russo wouldn’t have had
a book. Again, it didn’t stop me from
yelling at my Kindle.
Length:
168 Pages
Price:
$5.50
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