Christina's Reviews > Just One Look

Lindsay Cameron, are you my soulmate? Because your one-of-a-kind document review stalker mystery went straight to this lawyer’s heart.

I will confess that in between my past five careers as a lawyer-actress-writer-lawyer again (more on that in some other review), I had a brief and demoralizing stint as a document review temp at Biglaw. This book is hilariously, TERRIFYINGLY accurate about the perverse and creepy little document review world. I bet you didn’t know there are entire warehouses where mind-numbingly bored attorneys sift through creepy personal emails all day long, having their phones and their bathroom breaks monitored, but it’s all true.

And the mystery! Now really, what better setting for a stalker than a job where you are literally paid to read other people’s emails? This was a unique and fun setup, delivered with pitch perfection by Cameron in a creepy setting very similar to the one I worked in, despised and still have PTSD from, so this book had at least four stars from me right out of the gate.

Cassie is clearly a psycho from the start, but I was instantly rooting for her. Why? Was it because she was so charming and funny? So resourceful and organized with her law-review research style approach to her stalking target? Or was it simply that I know from firsthand experience that document review at Biglaw is a job that can drive any person straight-up bonkers? Well, it was all these things.

Also, I loved the two intertwining mysteries, the apt commentary on the slimy aspects of Biglaw firms and the cases you work on there, and the skewering of the personality types you find there. I was totally entertained by Cassie and her coworkers.

I think this is a mystery that will be fun for everyone, but it’s especially unmissable for attorneys. I would love to meet Lindsay Cameron to shake her hand and tell her how right-on her depictions of this culture are. I also wish I had this story to listen to on audiobook during my document reviews back in the day. Some wicked stalker escapism definitely made the job more fun for Cassie, and listening to her exploits would definitely have passed my mouse-clicking hours much more enjoyably as well.

Read this clever and funny stalker tale! It’s out now. Special thanks to Ballantine Books, NetGalley, and especially Lindsay Cameron for the cackles. I’m not sure I should have laughed this much while reading about a psychopathic document reviewer, but I certainly enjoyed my time with Cassie. Sequel, please? 4.5 stars!