This is book 4 in the Meg Langslow mystery series. I know I should be working my way through the Hugo Nominees as I get to vote on them this year, but I haven't been in the mood for Scifi this past week.
In Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon, Meg has to moved to Caerphilly to live with her boyfriend Michael. After smashing her hand with a hammer, Meg has agreed to work temporarily at her brother's computer business, Mutant Wizards. Rob thought something strange was going on at the company and asked Meg, under the pretences of working there, to find out what.
Mutant Wizards is a looney bin full of computer people and several offices of therapists, who are just as loony as the computer people. Not more than a couple days into the job, the office joker, Ted, is found dead on the mail cart, strangled with a mouse cord. The question is now, who would bump of Ted? Drop dead gorgeous Jack, who's had his ideas ripped off from Ted? The disgruntled dismissed employee who's been lurking around the building? The company's lawyer, tired of his practical jokes? From Meg's view, it could be anyone of them, except her brother of course.
Meg starts to dig into the murder because the police are going to botch the job and lock her brother up in the slammer. In the course of her investigations she learns that one employee used to be a hacker, a lurker is a spy for another company, the office veterinarian is a former PETA radical turned animal therapist and Michael bought a run down house with all it's occupants.
Fun. Fluffy. More errors in this one than I've noticed in others. And I'm wondering why everyone in Meg's life must be a nut job. Still, I'll read the next. Possibly this week even...
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