A Woman's Place [Hardcover]

Linda Grant (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1994

San Francisco private eye Catherine Sayler and her partner, Jesse Price, are called in by a computer firm to investigate high-tech sexual harassment that soon turns deadly. By the author of Love Nor Money.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Expertly accelerated tension holds the reader's attention as San Francisco PI Catherine Sayler confronts sexism--in the extreme--in the '90s workplace. Allen Leggett, CEO of Systech, a software development firm with sexual harassment problems, hires Catherine and Jesse, her (male) business partner, to find "one guy--and it has to be a salesman, not a programmer" to make an example of. Both enter the workplace as new employees. Jesse checks out the obscene e-mail messages on the computer system as Catherine searches for the harasser(s) among an assortment of gleefully sexist computer cowboys. She begins to suspect that more than crude jokes may be going on when Systech manager Sheila Wainwright hints that she is out for "bigger game" than a prankster and when Leggett stands by a smarmy v-p who dismisses photos of women being tortured as "boys-will-be-boys stuff"--right up to the sadistic murder of a female employee. By escalating from the everyday to the barely imaginable, Grant ( Love nor Money ) makes the most of her material, registering her points on issues while keeping entertainment the focus of her story.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

San Francisco private eye Catherine Sayler specializes in corporate security. Working undercover as a telecommunications expert with a prestigious banking software firm, Catherine hopes to find the source of sexually harassing E-mail, practical "jokes," and pornographic interoffice "memos." Tensions increase when murder strikes the office and all indications point to Catherine as the next victim. With the aid of her police detective ex-husband and her computer-whiz partner, Jesse, she redoubles her efforts to expose the vicious employee. Grant's breezy, relatively light-weight style and plucky heroine should interest undemanding readers.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 261 pages
• Publisher: Scribner (April 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 068419631X
• ISBN-13: 978-0684196312
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,458,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Educational AND interesting!, October 11, 2000

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Penny (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia (Paperback)

While a few years old now, A Womans Place is still a fascinating history of women in Australian politics. Inspirational and great to use for those pesky Government essays.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars P.I. Catherine Sayler becomes the target of a serial killer., May 27, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Woman's Place (Mass Market Paperback)

Catherine and her partner Jesse are undercover at a hightech firm to discover who's responsible for the sexuallyharassing pranks. The pranks turn deadly soon enough, however, and Catherine must find a killer before he finds her. Fourth in the series and no slacking off. Author Linda Grant is very talented and a great observer of the San Francisco scene, especially as viewed by Sayler's teenage niece. This series only gets better, and the protagonist is on a par with all the other female "dicks" we have come to know and love.