2015 action/mystery, second in the Miranda Vaughn series. Disgraced
(but found not guilty) former commercial banker Miranda is helping a
whistleblower whose boss is making some very dubious-looking payments.
This is an agreeable light mistery with a dash of action and a
smidgen of romance. It's quite fun. But what we don't get is either
Researcher Miranda or Screwball Comedy Heroine Miranda back from the
first book, and they were why I read this at all.
I like some of the attitudes displayed here, particularly the
realistic tension between the whistleblower (necessarily a
first-timer) and the FBI agents who've seen it all before and are not
inclined to be impressed. But all too soon the primary plot falls into
a cycle of the whistleblower needing more inside information and
Miranda having to do very amateur undercover work to try to get it.
There's family drama as well, but the spark and zing that were the joy
of the first book just aren't here.
I'll finish the series, but there's not a lot to this middle volume.
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