It's a Crime A Novel

Pat Foy leads a charmed life. She has a close-knit family, an expensive home, a passion for mystery novels, and a satisfying career as a landscape designer. But then her husband, Frank, is arrested for accounting fraud at the telecommunications firm that employs him. "How could anything that boring be illegal?" she wonders. The scandal threatens to drain the Foysrs" bank account, send Frank to prison, and tear the family apart. Attempting to understand the suffering caused by the companyrs"s bankruptcy, Pat decides to search out the victims-and finds more twists and turns than in any of the whodunits she has read.

Jacqueline Carey’s previous books include Good Gossip, part of which appeared in The New Yorker, and The Crossley Baby, which garnered Carey a Guggenheim Fellowship. She used to write a mystery column for Salon.com. Carey lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, the writer Ian Frazier, and their two children.


From the Hardcover edition.