Hedging

Smith & Wetzon #8

by Annette Meyers

The eighth book in the Smith and Wetzon seriesSmith and Wetzon are back! Hedging marks the long-awaited return of Wall Street headhunter/sleuth, Leslie Wetzon; her business partner, Xenia Smith; and NYPD Detective Silvestri. An executive jet belonging to major hedge fund manager Jason McLaughlin explodes on the runway of Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. There are bodies to be identified. Soon after, a New York City hospital admits a new patient, cut, burned and bruised, suffering from hypothermia. She was found wandering in Central Park. Her dress is stained with blood. The blood is not hers. She remembers nothing before she woke in the hospital. She's a Jane Doe, or as she calls herself, Temporary Jane (T.J.). Then her photo appears in the newspapers as Mary Lou Salinger, a possible survivor of the explosion, but Xenia Smith recognizes her as Leslie Wetzon! As Leslie's memory slowly returns, she is faced with more questions. Why is someone trying to kill her? Why are she and Mary Lou Salinger dead look-alikes? Who is Jason McLaughlin? And how is she going to deal with the impossible Xenia Smith? When the bodies from the explosion are identified, Wetzon must stop hedging and make some life-altering decisions. Hedging is a witty puzzle involving murder, high finance and low ethics, blended with danger and romance.

Genres: Mystery

Paperback

First published February 1, 2005

About the author

Annette Meyers spent sixteen years on Wall Street as an executive search consultant, and is currently an arbitrator with the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). She is a past president of Sisters in Crime and is secretary of the International Association of Crime Writers.

With her husband Martin Meyers, using the pseudonym Maan Meyers, she writes historical mysteries set in New York in the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries.

--from her website

Series:
* Smith and Wetzon Mystery
* Olivia Brown Mystery

Reviews

[David Chess · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a bad book, but one that left me with a sort of "um, okay?" feeling, unsure of just why I'd read it.

It starts as a rather compelling amnesia thriller, as an injured woman with no memory of who she is runs from unknown killers.

But then less than halfway through, she finds (wealthy, powerful) people that know her, most of her memory returns, and I found myself much less interested.

[Ellen · Rating 2 out of 5]

It had a breathless beginning, and enough mystery in the first half to be intriguing, but when the protagonist resumed work in the NY headhunter office where she's a partner, it got too boring to finish.

[Lesley · Rating 4 out of 5]

A return to this good series of mysteries, even if I feel that the 'bonk protag on head and give them amnesia' is a strategy employed by series writers who have gone a bit stale!