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Getting Mine
From Mundane to Murder
It begins as a routine case for insurance investigator Martha "Moz" Brant. Her client is involved in a minor rear-end collision. But when large claims are filed by the "victims," Moz gets suspicious. Especially when she meets LaDonna Treece, who seems remarkably agile for someone with serious back injury.
After LaDonna is found dead of an apparent overdose, Moz becomes even more suspicious. Some dogged sleuthing leads her to a dangerous scam and makes her realize that life insurance for herself may not be such a bad idea.
It begins as a routine case for insurance investigator Martha "Moz" Brant. Her client is involved in a minor rear-end collision. But when large claims are filed by the "victims," Moz gets suspicious. Especially when she meets LaDonna Treece, who seems remarkably agile for someone with serious back injury.
After LaDonna is found dead of an apparent overdose, Moz becomes even more suspicious. Some dogged sleuthing leads her to a dangerous scam and makes her realize that life insurance for herself may not be such a bad idea.
264 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 1991
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June 7, 2018
In the early 90s, the indy movie market, direct to cable edition, was full of little movies that all got the label "neo-noir". What this usually meant was that everybody was kind of downbeat and downwardly mobile, running sad little scams that big corporate america barely noticed. This is the book equivalent of this little genre, but, alas, not a good representation.
Here, our plucky heroine is a insurance adjuster with dreams of a little place in the Orange County countryside, a lust for a big reward from the insurance industry for breaking up insurance fraud rings, and a list of names of suspicious claimants she's been compiling on her own time. Naturally, she stumbles on an insurance scheme run by the requisite rich, talented but racist, perverted wierdo, and makes herself a target for a kill-crazy low life that has gotten connected to the scam. Of course she wrecks a few cars, worries her boyfriend and AA sponsor, and stumbles on a motherlode of porno art while doing an extremely messy job of running the scheme to the ground. She doesn't get rich for her efforts, but at least she is not fired for extreme stupidity, and the body count is kept within the single digits.
Might be interesting as a representation of an era where computers were taking over, but the internet was still just a gleam in Al Gore's eye. But the LA (OC) setting has been done to death, and the lead character's detecting skills do not impress.
Here, our plucky heroine is a insurance adjuster with dreams of a little place in the Orange County countryside, a lust for a big reward from the insurance industry for breaking up insurance fraud rings, and a list of names of suspicious claimants she's been compiling on her own time. Naturally, she stumbles on an insurance scheme run by the requisite rich, talented but racist, perverted wierdo, and makes herself a target for a kill-crazy low life that has gotten connected to the scam. Of course she wrecks a few cars, worries her boyfriend and AA sponsor, and stumbles on a motherlode of porno art while doing an extremely messy job of running the scheme to the ground. She doesn't get rich for her efforts, but at least she is not fired for extreme stupidity, and the body count is kept within the single digits.
Might be interesting as a representation of an era where computers were taking over, but the internet was still just a gleam in Al Gore's eye. But the LA (OC) setting has been done to death, and the lead character's detecting skills do not impress.
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