Get Hold Of The Monitor (Randy Craig Mystery #2) Formulated By Janice MacDonald Accessible Through Textbook
being watched. Former University of Alberta lecturer Randy Craig is now working parttime at Edmonton's Grant MacEwan College, and struggling to make ends meet.
That is, until she takes an evening job monitoring a chat room
called Babel for an employer she knows only as Chatgod.
Between shutting down an online bookie and patrolling for porn, Randy begins to suspect a connection between a Texas woman having an online affair through Babel, and surfacing reports of man killed at his computer in the same state.
When I first started reading this book, I had to doublecheck the publication date, That helped a lot, because some of the technology referred to frames, Netscape, Lycos, etc, really dated the tale.
Still, the story of Randy Craig being hired as a chat room monitor in Babel to help make ends meet.
. . and her discovering a hit man using Babel to make contract connections was a good premise, I found the suspense and intrigue entertaining, and the characters believable,
Until the suspense and intrigue stopped being entertaining, . . which is just as the book was wrapping up,
Set in Edmonton, Alberta, English instructor Randy Craig is teaching an online distance education course and having a hard time paying the bills, so she takes a job monitoring a chatroom called Babel.
When the spouse of one of their regular members is killed and the member herself vanishes, Randy begins to wonder if something nefarious is going on within Babel.
The paperback version I read was published in, and author Janice MacDonald seemed ahead of her time by tackling technology in Canadian crime fiction.
Although some of the technical aspects are somewhat dated, the social, ethical, and moral dilemmas are as important today if not more so as they were then.
Academic settings in mysteries dont interest me, however, this book appeared in my gift bag at a recent mystery writing conference.
Since technology in crime novels does interest me, I gave it a try, While it was interesting to read about the inside world of chatrooms, the protagonists daily events went on for too long before anything significant happened.
Tension and action werent that high until the lastpages of thispage paperback,
Readers who enjoy mysteries with more methodical pacing will find this book appealing, I didnt like the ending at all, but to say why would be a spoiler alert, so Ill have to leave it at that.
This is the second in a series featuring Randy Craig, I'm hoping the next one is better, I just couldn't finish this, The story is focused around internet chat rooms, I couldn't relate at all,
Couldn't finish it so it's possible it got better but it sure wasn't for me, Randy Craig works parttime as a University lecturer in Edmonton Alberta, To supplement her income she takes on a second job in cyberspace, monitoring a chat site overnight to watch over the participants, secretly dropping in on their conversations to ensure there are no problems and ensuring that things dont get too heated sexually.
The premise sounded interesting and I loved the setting, having visited Edmonton numerous times, At the halfway point, the story so far had only focused on Randys cyber chats, her thoughts her eavesdropping on the social site.
what happened to the mystery It finally kicked in, but for me it was a little underwhelming, The mystery itself was very weak, it almost seemed like an afterthought to the rest of the story,
My rating for the actual “mystery” is only,but my rating for the characters amp the rest of the plot is,Rounded to
Would I read another in this series I enjoyed MacDonalds characters amp setting enough to give this series another shot.
The cover doesn't do the book justice!
Janice is a Canadian author and I hope there's a sequel!! The second book I read by Janice.
. . it was good perhaps a little weird, . . but then isn't that the internet and chat rooms, . . weird. A different culture. Loved her detail. . love Randy Craig. I have read a few of the Randy Craig mysteries written by Janice MacDonald and enjoyed them, There was nothing enjoyable about this book, If it had been the first one I read of hers I would never have read another, Boring, poorly written, and the best you could hope for was the end of the story, I may never read another, Janice MacDonald is a bestselling Canadian author who is best known for a series of crime novels featuring amateur sleuth Miranda Randy Craig the latest of these popular mysteries is The Eye of the Beholder.
The Randy Craig Mysteries were the first detective series to be set in Edmonton, Alberta, where Janice lives and works.
Janice is also the author ofs Confederation Drive, a work of creative non fiction written for Canadasth birthday.
Her other titles include an award winning childrens book The Ghouls Night Out, a university textbook, and several non fiction/historical titles about her home province.
Born on the side of a mountain in Banff National Park, the daughter of a cowboy from southern Alberta and a schoolt Janice MacDonald is a bestselling Canadian author who is best known for a series of crime novels featuring amateur sleuth Miranda "Randy" Craig the latest of these popular mysteries is The Eye of the Beholder.
The Randy Craig Mysteries were the first detective series to be set in Edmonton, Alberta, where Janice lives and works.
Janice is also the author of's Confederation Drive, a work of creative non fiction written for Canada'sth birthday.
Her other titles include an award winning children's book The Ghouls' Night Out, a university textbook, and several non fiction/historical titles about her home province.
Born on the side of a mountain in Banff National Park, the daughter of a cowboy from southern Alberta and a schoolteacher who herself had been born in a pioneer log cabin in the Peace River Country, Janice considers herself to be a example of the quintessential Albertan.
A dyed in the wool Edmontonian, Janice makes no apologies for setting her novels in a recognizable Edmonton and celebrating the things that make this northern metropolis so vibrant and unique.
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