- Mass Market Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Star (Oct 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671014250
- ISBN-13: 978-0671014254
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 9.4 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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From Publishers Weekly
The glamour, glitz and chintz of L.A. buzz throughout the fourth Iris Thorne mystery (after Fast Friends, 1997), a frothy confection of sex, murder and deceit which requires the suspension of critical taste as well as disbelief. Iris, a rising star at the brokerage firm McKinney Alitzer, is already dealing with a back-stabbing regional manager when she is thrown into an even worse situation. Her friends Bridget and Kip Cross have used his programming skills and her business savvy to turn Pandora Software into a wildly successful computer gaming company. But their marriage is crumbling and, not long after Bridget decides to take the company public, she's murdered. Naturally, Kip is the main suspect. Iris is named in Bridget's will as trust administrator to run Pandora, which lands her smack in the middle of a nasty, multiparty fight. The rambling plot involves multiple murders; a Texas business raider's attempts to control Pandora Software; adultery; interoffice intrigue at McKinney Alitzer and Pandora; and a little girl who saw her mother's murder but repressed her memory of it. Pugh doesn't seem to try to craft all these elements together with any elegance. In addition to nervous verbal energy (much of it expended on describing what characters wear), she relies on plot contrivances (some, like cars that don't start, used more than once) and the titillating atmosphere of narcissistic L.A. to hold a reader's interest.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
Bridget Cross has come to one of those rough spots. Her husband Kip, Mr. Creative Genius of Pandora Software, is resisting her efforts to take Pandora public even though he gave her control of the company; now she's found out that he's been sleeping with her onetime secretary, Toni Burton; and as she ponders divorce proceedings, she's worried that somebody's been following her. No wonder her friend Alexa Platt tells her that Kip might kill her. But then, in the first of many surprises, it's Alexa who gets killed, attacked shortly after her warning to Bridget. It's only afterwards that Bridget gets shot down in front of her daughter Brianna, five, who identifies the killer as Slade Slayer, the cartoon hero of Pandora's breakthrough game. Bridget's troubles, at least, are over; but when investment counselor Iris Thorne learns that Bridget's left her shares of Pandora in trust to Brianna, and named Iris as the trustee deputized with tossing rapacious corporate raider T. Duke Sawyer out of Pandora's tent as she shepherds Pandora's initial public offering to market, Iris realizes that her own troubles are just beginning. Pugh's fourth (Fast Friends, 1997, etc.) juggles computer gamesmanship, securities fraud, and murder most foul, seasoning the mix with her trademark office plotting, to come up with another winner that makes all manner of skullduggery look as natural as vanity and greed. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This review is from: FOOLPROOF (Hardcover)
In the Los Angeles area, Bridget and Kip Cross have turned their family computer business, Pandora Software, into a huge success. However, as their company grows and goes public, their marriage begins to crumble. Not long after the stock went public, Bridget is murdered and Kip is the prime suspect. Investment counselor Iris Thorne was a close friend of Bridget and Kip. In spite of the seemingly insurmountable evidence, Iris finds it difficult to believe Kip murdered his spouse. Still, her deceased friend's will names her as the fiscal guardian of the couple's little girl, who inherited her mother's stock. Though she cannot remember, the little girl witnessed the murder of her mother. Iris knows that it is up to her to protect the little girl from a cold blooded killer, who may target a five year old child as his next victim. The fourth Thorne mystery, FOOLPROOF, is filled with interesting characters, especially Iris (whom readers will love) and five years old Brianna (whom the audience will adopt). Although the story line is riddled with too many plot gimmicks and devices that ultimately cause reader attention to diminish a bit,this still remains a fun and enjoyable reading experience. Harriet Klausner
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This review is from: FOOLPROOF (Hardcover)
In the Los Angeles area, Bridget and Kip Cross have turned their family computer business, Pandora Software, into a huge success. However, as their company grows and goes public, their marriage begins to crumble. Not long after the stock went public, Bridget is murdered and Kip is the prime suspect. Investment counselor Iris Thorne was a close friend of Bridget and Kip. In spite of the seemingly insurmountable evidence, Iris finds it difficult to believe Kip murdered his spouse. Still, her deceased friend's will names her as the fiscal guardian of the couple's little girl, who inherited her mother's stock. Though she cannot remember, the little girl witnessed the murder of her mother. Iris knows that it is up to her to protect the little girl from a cold blooded killer, who may target a five year old child as his next victim. The fourth Thorne mystery, FOOLPROOF, is filled with interesting characters, especially Iris (whom readers will love) and five years old Brianna (whom the audience will adopt). Although the story line is riddled with too many plot gimmicks and devices that ultimately cause reader attention to diminish a bit,this still remains a fun and enjoyable reading experience. Harriet Klausner |
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