DEFECTIVE GOODS

DEFECTIVE GOODS
Linda Mickey
300 pages
ISBN: Trade 0-595-31717-0
Hardcover 0-595-66393-1
iUniverse
July 2004
$ 16.95/$26.95

DEFECTIVE GOODS is an adventure from the point-of-view of Kyle Shannon. Kyle is very independent and is female despite her name. She is working for a temp service and currently is in the managerial position at Drip Not Paint.

While being late on your first few days of employment is usually a bad sign, there can be good reasons for your delays such as having difficulty finding the place and while cleaning spilled coffee in her car, finding the company’s CFO, chief financial officer, dead in his car. Since Kyle has worked with the police in a previous investigation, she naturally starts to question people at the company since she is currently getting to know these people.

Kyle has a special assignment while at Drip Not and that is to be in charge of the ISO project. An ISO is the International Standards Organization manual which states the procedures for the individual aspects of the company. All the manuals need to be updated with the current practices of each department. While working on this, Kyle discovers some major problems with a few companies in the areas of defective goods, especially the spray paints. The closer she gets to discover the possible problems, the more dangerous this investigation becomes.

When a second death occurs, Kyle begins to feel threatened and wonders who can be trusted at Drip Not. Through office relationships, known and not-known, to jealousies, to who is really related to whom, this fast-paced novel is a delightful read.

As a general rule, I do not read iUniverse publications. I was astonished with this wonderful novel. It is consistent, insightful, fun, logical, and well written. For anyone else who tends to have a prejudice against the iUniverse publications, at least read DEFECTIVE GOODS. This was a fun escape novel into someone else’s life that I could not and would not have.

Linda Mickey has written one other novel, GREASED WHEELS. Both novels involve her experiences in the business sector and her life in the Chicago area.