The Year of the Monkey — 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 doesn't know a tax shelter from a bus shelter ... but Creative financial Ventures is offering steady work, decent pay, and a posh office in New York's Chinatown. How can she say no? Craving a respectable career, Bonnie vows to avoid all watercooler gossip, interoffice romance... and murder investigations. But when CE0 Ashley Gartner turns up dead, and thugs start chasing Bonnie through the subways, she can't help but break her vow -- and try to break the case...