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Deeanna and James, low-level managers, have nothing in common except their jobs at one link in a huge national book-and-media chain and a talent for sarcasm. Deeanna, an escapee from corporate life, longs to publish a mystery novel, but instead finds herself living through a series of real-life crimes including embezzlement and murder. Make that murders, plural. She and James harness their nosy natures to investigate the backstage worlds of retail, publishing, media and how to attract an impossibly delicious police detective long before Deeanna comes to the realization that mystery novels may not be her forte.