Brownies, Bodies and Breaking the Code
by JL Wilson
Published by The Wild Rose Press
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Reviewed by Megan Politte
Jessie Patrokus has all the qualities that make a great software tester: she’s diligent, she’s curious and she doesn’t give up. Those are just the qualities that might get her killed if she isn’t careful.
Jessie just ventured into the dating world again after the death of her husband and had signed up with an online matchmaker, only to find a match who wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer. To complicate matters, a colleague turns up dead from eating the brownies she brought to the company’s Christmas potluck, and now Jessie is in the middle of a murder case.
Gus Colcannon, a new programmer at the company, starts to ask a lot of questions and Jessie gets suspicious. That’s when she finds she may have uncovered a terrorist plot aimed at several airlines, and Gus is an undercover FBI agent, sent to ferret out the truth. But Jessie’s the only one who has the evidence to prove what’s going on—and she’s been set up as bait in a trap. Did Gus set the trap? Or is someone else at the company out to get her? Now all Jessie has to do is dodge an email stalker, help unravel the clues that her murdered co-worker left her, and try to avoid falling in love with Gus.
I found it difficult to get really into this book. It has a really great mystery, but I found it hard to understand a lot of the technical jargon that was used about computer programming. If you’re a computer programmer, then this book should be right up your alley. If not, you may find it a little hard to follow in some places.
Armchair Interviews says: Overuse of computer jargon may lessen value of mystery for some readers.
Author’s Web site: http://www.JayellWilson.com