These are the web pages of the Jacqueline Carey who writes literary fiction. She is the winner of a Guggenheim fellowship. She is not the fantasy writer or the cordmaker, although she admires their names. Carey has a great ear, and Foy and depressive Howley make for one of the great odd couples in crime fiction. Offbeat humor propels an unusual take on the modern mystery. -Kirkus Review  |
It's A CrimeWith IT’S A CRIME, Jacqueline Carey has upended the notion of genre and written a book that is both a satisfying mystery and a ferocious social comedy. But her novel also transcends these classifications through the quiet nerviness of its voice and singularity of its vision. This is a very witty original look at corporate scandals and the way we live now. - Meg Wolitzer White-collar mischief doesn't typically inspire vigilante justice. But that's just what happens when Pat Foy's husband is imprisoned for accounting fraud... In this ripped-from-the-headlines satire, Carey skewers corporate culture and its insidious effects: Though Dad's in jail, you can't help but think it's his family doing the hard time. -Marie Claire Pat Foy leads a charmed life. She has a closeknit family, an expensive home, and a satisfying career as a landscape designer. She also reads mystery novels all the time -- yet can’t see what is happening right in front of her eyes. She is astonished when her husband Frank is arrested for accounting fraud at LinkAge, the huge telecommunications firm. “How could anything that boring be illegal?” she wonders. The scandal hits the press and threatens to drain their bank account, send Frank to prison, and tear the family apart. Frank claims that fudging the numbers is standard practice in today’s go-go business atmosphere. Everyone does it, or would if he could. Americans love recklessness; they admire scalawags. Pat does, too -- at least in novels. And it’s hard for her to imagine who has suffered from LinkAge’s bankruptcy. So she decides to find out. She thinks that all she has to do is get out her checkbook, but events have already begun to spin out of control. Inspired by the corporate scandals that rocked a nation only a short time ago, Jacqueline Carey’s whip-smart and irresistibly sly novel deftly portrays the dire costs of today’s culture of runaway corporate greed -- bringing to life a fractured landscape of CEOs-turned-robber barons, privileged lives punctured by wretched excess, and personal relationships put to the ultimate test. |
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