The Monitor

By Janice MacDonald

You're being watched. Former University of Alberta lecturer Randy Craig is now working part-time 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888012845
• ISBN13: 9780888012845
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Turnstone Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Witty Romp through Edmonton

Ok, so I'm a mystery wimp. I don't like a lot of violence. (...) I want a good story, in an interesting place, with characters who have enough depth that not only do I care what happens to them, I want to know more about them.Janice MacDonald delivers all that in a whodunit with enough twists and turns to keep you wondering right up until the end just how it's all going to turn out. In the meantime, it's fun to run around Edmonton with Randy Craig, whose friends I'd kinda like to have for my own, and whose enemies I'm genuinely glad I don't have to deal with!

Another fun mystery!

In The Monitor, Ms. McDonald again brings us Randy Craig in a story involving chat rooms, cybercrime police, and life online. As one who has been a denizen of several online communities as well as having worked as a moderator, the details of the story ring true and make it easy to become immersed in the story as Randy tries to deal with the probablity that someone she "knows" is a a killer. Fun, fast and an overall good read!