The Trouble With a Small Raise — Camilla T. Crespi

DYING TO GET AHEAD
A large office is like a small town: you have to be an insider in order to know who is doing what to whom. And at the plush, elegant offices of HH&H Advertising, executive Simona Griffo observed plenty going on-cutthroat competition, closet love affairs, ill-kept secrets, even blackmail.

Then Simona arrived at the office early Monday morning, hoping to catch her boss, Fred Critelli, in a good mood so she could ask him for a raise--and found him lying on the thick carpet of his office ... dead.

Who had killed Fred ... and why? Was it the temperamental Art Director? The frazzled Office Manager? The sexy Receptionist? Maybe even one of the partners? Determined to put two and two together, Simona began some fine-tuned sleuthing...only to find a shocking clue to the murder planted in her own desk drawer.