Harriet Klausner's Review Archive
Unable to cope, Madeline quits her job; her former boss Sal gets her a place to stay in Malibu, California at a friend's home. The friend turns out to be Hollywood director Tyler Beckett, his young wife, and his teenage daughter. To earn money, Madeline becomes a successful day trader until she meets former boyfriend Ernest Billings, who gives her insider information that he has been named as CEO of Langton Regional Group. Though questionable and perhaps illegal, Madeline invests in LRG and inadvertently persuades her mom to do so too only to see the price of the stock collapse and Ernest vanishes. As she searches for what happened she meets Steve Rundel, but her fiscal fiasco seems to keep the duo apart though they are attracted to one another.
MAD MONEY is an enjoyable financial contemporary romantic suspense starring a beleaguered heroine struggling with grief while trying to start over. The tale has several subplots besides the Billings deal that are well written such as a teen runaway, but take the reader away from the prime theme of Madeline's drowning in her professional life while flopping in her personal life. Readers will enjoy this madcap fiscal adventure starring a likeable cast especially the protagonist.