Book description
Susan Callisto is pushing thirty and taking stock. The man in her life,
Massachusetts police lieutenant Michael Benedict, has unaccountably left
her without a word of goodbye. Her consulting firm caters to entry level
candidates, and while business is good, money is short. Late in the
season, political novice Charles Renfrow begs Susan to help him run for
mayor of Telford. But Renfrow is a scientist not a politician, and his
pockets are far too deep. Susan is tempted-Renfrow knows how to
seduce-but her suspicions, if not her libido, are aroused. When a friend
insists Renfrow's biotech company is dumping deadly toxic waste, Susan
decides to find out the truth before committing herself. Instead of
truth, she finds a corpse, Renfrow's gorgeous assistant Torie Moran. The
murder weapon is a microtome blade, razor sharp and accessible to anyone
at Renfrow's lab. After Torie's murder, violence shadows Susan and
people close to her. She is attacked in her driveway. An elderly client
is beaten and left for dead. The young daughter of a candidate is
abducted on her way to play camp. All sticky strands of a web with her
name on it, Susan fears. Then Renfrow himself turns up dead. Was he was
the spider, the liar, the pitiless master of cause and effect? The
murders bring Michael Benedict back into Susan's life, and when another
of her candidates is charged, she elbows her way into Michael's
investigation. Working on parallel tracks, Susan and Michael uncover
trails no one else wants to follow….. After law school, Angela Gerst
moved from New York to Massachusetts and worked at journals. As a
suburban desk reporter, she covered local happenings for the Newton
Times and the Boston Globe, with a detour as press secretary for a
Boston cultural organization. Her interest in local issues became a
passion for campaigning and political consulting-which led inexorably to
this first Susan Callisto mystery novel. Using her experience in
magazine sales and marketing, she has helped define and set up
Meadowlark Media. She and her husband live near Boston.
