Elizabeth Bloom, See Isabelle Run

See Isabelle Run

Elizabeth Bloom

Mysterious, March 2005, $22.95, 259 pp.

ISBN 0892967854

She moved from Vermont to be with her fianc e but on their wedding day he jilted Isabelle and he took the maid of honor with him to the honeymoon in Fiji. A class act, Isabelle insists everyone enjoy the reception and even dances on the table. The newspaper prints a picture of Isabelle dancing to go along with her heartbreaking story and Becky Belden, a Martha Stewart clone, offers her a job in her empire.

When she arrives, Isabelle is assigned to work as Lisa Kinne's assistant in special projects. She learns that she is the replacement for Marcia who died when she was pushed in front of a train. A company friend warns Isabelle that other deaths of employees have occurred and one worker, Kenny, remains missing. Becky dedicates a show to Kenny and places a life sized-picture of him in the street level window of Becky Belden's Enterprises where everyone can see it. When Lisa drowns in her swimming pool and a man enters her house to kill Isabelle, she knows something sinister is going on at the company and all the deaths are related and intends to prove it.

Elizabeth's Bloom's debut novel is a smashing success and ensures that readers who have read SEE ISABELLE RUN will buy the next thriller this author writes. The heroine is a spunky, brave individual who refuses to ignore crimes being committed, even when one of the suspects is her lover, a top executive in Becky's business. When she believes she is the next person to be killed, she doesn't run away but looks for answers though that places her in more danger.

Harriet Klausner