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Deadman's switch

Barbara Seranella

2007261 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2007
first published
  • 2007St. Martin's Minotaur · 261 pages · ENGISBN 9780312361709
  • 2013St. Martin's Press · ENGISBN 9781466851511

Charlotte Lyon can handle a crisis and has made that talent into a lucrative business. She describes it as crisis management, in which she supplies excellent and often unusual advice to suddenly troubled company heads about how to handle the press and the shareholders. And she goes beyond that, whenever she finds it necessary, to get to the bottom of the crisis itself. The job she has now is one of the latter; the derailment of a companys train that has killed both the engineer and a motion picture celebrity. Charlotte refuses to let her own demons-the recent death of her husband and a constantly nagging mother-keep her from going after who caused the accident.

How it feels

AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

When and where

ThemesJustice
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