The Nature of the Beast — M.L. Roberts

Frederick Stevens, the unscrupulous CEO of Pricklin Industries, is a man who takes what he wants, including the wife of one of his employees, and leaving in his wake a host of embittered victims bent on retribution. Into the picture steps Angela Chen, a wily and dispassionate industrial spy sent by a rival firm to bring Stevens down. The mix is ripe for a satirical romp of melodramatic misadventures, climaxing in a whodunit that will baffle the reader to the very end.