None of Your Business

by Valerie Block

Book Overview

With a nod to Ed McBain and Fay Weldon, Block creates an hilarious tale of a heist gone wrong that ranges from the living rooms of Park Avenue to the parking lot of the White Castle on Queens... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345461843
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.1" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic

My God, I didn't want this book to end. The best I've read all year. There are several synopses on the page already so I'll skip that. "None of Your Business" was extremely funny, clever, well-written and enthralling. I waited a long time after Ms. Block's first book for her follow-up, and she certainly did not disappoint. Should be on the best seller list.

Smart, Funny, Worth It

A fun fast read that I could not put down. A computer mystery with odd, well developed charachters, witty writing and a compelling plot. A great book and this will be a great movie. (I agree with the reviewer that says the cover doesn't make any sense)...Buy it anyway.

That's My New York

The Story is about computer crime and it's about the characters and how you come to know them. But what really grabs you are Block's perfect descriptions of the New York scene. You know those places - the upper east side apartment, the Queens diner, the Hamptons off season. Mystery or not, this book is well written. I loved it.

brilliantly written and funny police procedural

The first hint that anything is wrong in Patricia Greiff's life occurs when an insurance representative accompanied by a bailiff force themselves into her Fifth Ave. apartment to assess the value of its contents. Detective Dennis Sprague and Tony Ballestrino of the Computer Crimes Squad follow, informing her that her husband Mitch of the brokerage firm of Friedman, Greiff and Slavin is missing along with over a hundred million dollars from the firm.While the police do their best to locate him, Mitch lives quietly in a dinky rental home in Queens. He wanted out of his life and bookkeeper Erica King used her computer skills to help him including robbing some of the firm's wealthiest clients through a series of wire transfers to offshore banks. Erica did it out of love for Mitch but when he becomes too dependent, she has to figure out a way of disappearing with her half of the money. As the police investigate her in earnest, they find behind Erica's bland exterior, there is a sharp mind with a cunning sense of survival.This story is told from multiple viewpoints including the perpetrators, the shocked wife and the two lead officers on the case. Though readers need to adapt to the changing perspective, once done they will find this techniques makes the story more interesting and upbeat because readers get an inside looks at the private lives of key players leading to understanding how they think. NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS is a brilliantly written and funny police procedural that gives great insight into computer crime and how hard it is to prosecute those who commit it.Harriet Klausner