Death of a Downsizer — Carole Berry

The new novel featuring Bonnie Indermill -- a single, thirty-something Manhattanite with a wide range of job skills and a surprising knack for solving crimes

"Dorfmeyer the Downsizer" has the employees of the Richards & Goode Corporation trembling. He's famous for slashing jobs, and ever since he took over as CEO, the office has been a hotbed of bitterness and paranoia.

For Bonnie, R&G is just a temp job -- though she'd hoped to turn it into something permanent. Now, however, Dorfmeyer himself has been terminated...with a gun. And the gun may have Bonnie's fingerprints on it.

All Bonnie wanted was a few benefits, a health plan, the security that comes with steady employment. But if she doesn't resolve this mess soon, the only kind of security she'll have will be the maximum kind...