Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing,and Using Winning KPIs. David Parmenter

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Publisher: Wiley
Language: English
Page: 256
ISBN: 0470095881, 9780470095881

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Maynard serves up an examination of murder among the middle class. The setting is a gated community in a suburb outside Detroit. On Mother's Day in 2004, Nancy Seaman, the wife of a successful auto-industry engineer, herself an award-winning fourth-grade teacher, bought a hatchet at Home Depot. Three days later, her husband's mutilated body was found in the back of the family's Ford. There is no mystery as to who committed the crime. The mystery revolves around Nancy's defense, which was based on battered-woman syndrome. Although the basic plot is gripping, Maynard spends far too much time tracing the backgrounds of both families. It is also problematic that, although Maynard was unable to attend the trial, her account centers on the proceedings and the testimony delivered there; the result is not as compelling as it might have been. Still, Maynard's portrayal of battered-woman syndrome is thought-provoking, reinforcing her theme that we never know what is behind the walls of even seemingly respectable homes. Expect some media attention, but, finally, this material might have been better suited as a magazine article. Connie Fletcher
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Novelist Maynard (The Cloud Chamber, 2005, etc.) examines a real-life murder for the nasty truths it reveals about a family of four torn apart by its pursuit of the American dream.
In 2004, respected fourth-grade teacher Nancy Seaman picked up a hatchet and killed her hus-band, semi-retired automobile engineer and executive Bob. Was it self-defense or premeditation? Only Nancy knows; she's serving a life sentence in a Michigan jail. Maynard, no stranger to stories of corruption born of ambition (To Die For, 1992), takes on a tale that offers few conclusions but a host of intriguing questions. The central one: Where does happiness lie? Bob was a man who liked his Detroit Tigers season tickets and working on his vintage Mustangs; Nancy was a polished, proud woman who carefully tended her ideal life in Farmington Hills, a tony suburb of Detroit. They and their two sons, one favoring their mother and the other their father, made up an unhappy clan caught between keeping up appearances and having loving relationships. Maynard devotes the first half of her book to tracking down the Seamans' extended family, locating the roots of their marital problems and detailing the opinions and reactions of friends, coworkers and neighbors. Noting that her work falls under the ethical shadow cast by not just Truman Capote's In Cold Blood but the 2005 film Capote, she drops her detachment and becomes a presence in the story. She resists choosing sides about who was the real victim, Bob or Nancy. At times, she openly admits struggling with her feelings about her own family's dysfunction and divorce. In the end, Maynard finds enough common ground with the Seamans to portray a family broken, but one more familiar than strange.
Painful, intimate and blood-spattered: a gripping true-crime tale. (Kirkus, August 1, 2006)

INTERNAL COMBUSTION is an engrossing tale of a troubled marriage, a dysfunctional family and a horrible act of violence. It is thoroughly readable and just scary enough for a good winter's fireside read. - Bookreporter.com



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