Letter of the Law — Carole Berry

BONNIE INDERMILL

Objective: A fulfilling career and a committed husband...or at least a temp job to pay the bills and a date for the weekend.

Experience: Assistant office manager, assistant fitness counselor, assistant fund-raiser, assistant database manager...and occasionally assistant assistant.

Special Skills: Tap dancing, typing...and tracking down killers.

Bonnie had been working at Ely Sneed for too long. The law firm was on the seedy side, and the work drove her crazy, but somehow she never got around to looking for something better. Until the day that senior partner Albert Janowski turned up dead in a sleazy Times Square hotel. Suddenly Bonnie was smack in the middle of a murder mystery -- and running for her life instead of running the office. Now she knows this job is a dead end -- in more ways than one...