The Carol Frank "Boss" Mysteries Series

Legal secretary Carol Frank is great at her job, even if she must cope daily with the extreme quirks of her obsessive-compulsive boss, Bill Nestor. Attorney Bill produces wills and other estate documents for his clients, many of whom are elderly widows who, for some mysterious reason, later commit suicide. Or do they? Carol takes notice of the high mortality rate of Bill's clients when a criminally attractive detective comes to the office asking questions. Though at first her interest in the case is purely an interest in the detective, she begins to suspect that there is something more going on with Bill's client list than customer service. Revealing a conspiracy while navigating the waters of office politics isn't covered in the company policy handbook, and Carol must find answers to some hard questions. Is it acceptable to work for a killer, as long as he's polite? Do kinky sex games with a detective signify underlying psychoses, or just that she's easy? Does a secretary have to get pre-approved paid-time-off in order to run for her life? When one is attacked at the office, does destruction of clothing count as a tax write-off? These and many other murder, romance and filing dilemmas will be tackled in My Boss is a Serial Killer.

Law office manager Carol Frank thinks that her life couldn’t get much better until her boyfriend, Detective Augustus “Gus” Haglund, asks her to go undercover for a week. Though Carol’s friends and family had been pushing for a marriage proposal, detective work is the second-best thing Gus can offer. Always a fan of detective stories, Carol jumps at the chance to act as temporary secretary to Nathan Walsh, a real estate attorney who may be using his practice as a cover. Once Carol is in place, she learns that there is more happening at this firm than even Gus seemed to realize, and that she is not the only detective on the case. Brash insurance investigator Jim Loredo suspects that another attorney, egomaniacal Kristen Rogers, is either in big trouble or is the cause of it, and the more Carol learns, the more she agrees with him. Too bad she can’t convince Gus of the same – yet when Carol discovers that Gus is withholding important information about the case, including his own possible connections to Nathan Walsh, she begins to wonder exactly who is telling her the truth. As Carol navigates the labyrinth of her undercover job, she must fend off the advances of a sex-crazed septuagenarian, the wrath of a quick-tempered drama queen, and the endless phone calls of a germ-phobic “helicopter” mom in the next cubicle. Lucky for Carol, she has the support of her best friend attorney Bill Nestor, who is never too busy to come to the rescue. What should an undercover secretary do when she thinks she’s watching the wrong suspect? How does a secretary avoid being tagged as a “computer whiz?” How many instructions does it take to make a ham sandwich? Why is it so hard to find enough chairs for an important meeting? Exactly how many more outfits can Carol stand to lose to violent crime? These, and many other questions, will be answered when Carol Frank discovers, My Boss is a Wanted Woman. My Boss is a Wanted Woman is the third book in the romantic mystery Boss series by Christina Harlin, following My Boss is a Serial Killer and My Boss is a Dead Man.

My Boss is a Dead Man is the follow-up to the comic, office-based romantic suspense tale, My Boss is a Serial Killer. Carol Frank has enough on her plate, working as the office manager at a new law firm while trying to rekindle a romance. Being suspected of murder certainly throws a monkey wrench in the works. But a bad boss from Carol's past - one her friends will know as the Psychotic Sadist - has disappeared under very mysterious circumstances, and Carol is at the top of the Kansas City Police Department's suspect list. The fact that, years ago, she might have hatched the murder plot herself does not make things any easier for her, nor does the fact that her fingerprints are on the murder weapon. Finding the solution isn't in her job description, but Carol was never one who could leave a mystery alone. The course of her investigation reveals much more than she expected. How does one conduct a successful job interview with a kleptomaniac? Is the most prestigious law firm in town cloning its secretaries? Is it possible to fit both herself and Gus Haglund into her tiny shower stall? How does one talk to her boyfriend's ten-year-old son? And just exactly how many uses are there for a collection of glass paperweights? Once again, Carol pours all her secretarial skills into solving the puzzles of passion, greed and job interviews that emerge when she realizes My Boss is a Dead Man.