Growing Light — Marta Randall

Who would want George Ashby dead? How about Lena, his bitter ex-wife, a brilliant woman who founded the New Age software company Growing Light only to have Ashby take it away from her? Or maybe Mike Thompson, the company's power-hungry vice-president who has endured Ashby's eccentricities for much too long? The staff of Growing Light -- Carein, for whom life hasn't been the same since the Summer of Love, disaffected engineer Jimi Hendrix Johannsen, Audrey the bookkeeper who isn't too good with numbers, and the others -- sure don't seem to be too fond of George, but their bitterness hardly seems to rival that of Growing Light's ex-employees, all of whom would be glad to see the SOB done in. Who would want Ashby dead? Who wouldn't?