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# ‘Wearing the Spider’ By Susan Schaab • Galavant Press
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/wearing-the-spider-by-susan-schaab-galavant-press/
- Published: 2007-12-07T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T01:28:03.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Real Estate & Housing, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*What would you do if you discovered someone has access to your e-mail address and your electronic signature?*

*By By Dane Roberts Wans On Bookreview*

Little did Evie Sullivan, a New York attorney handling intellectual property rights, dream she would return on a plane trip from Los Angeles to New York to find her name linked to a shady situation concerning drug dealing. But when her name starts showing up on billing and documents from places she has never involved herself with she starts investigating, which causes her to find out some things that have been hidden.

As is necessary in these plots there must be a damsel in distress and a hero and a villain. Our hero appears at the beginning of the book. On that plane trip back, Evie meets a software project developer, Joseph Barton. He will help bring the culprit to justice eventually.

The characters are believable and the tension mounts as Evie and a coworker are pitted against one another.

“I want the partnership, but for the right reason,” she says. He will deny it to her by insinuating that she is doing sloppy work.

“You know how many natural barriers there are to female partnerships and your performance has been substandard,” he responds.

There is sexual harassment, which comes from Alan, a coworker, who is one step above her in the chain of command.

> “It’s highly unusual for someone to be included on an access list who has nothing to do with a deal.” — She goes on to clarify

> “My name was added to an access list for this client’s electronic files.”

“Even though she’d been aware of his propensity toward roguery, she’d been shocked when he followed her back to her Chicago room, kissed her and tried to force his way into her room.” She agrees not to report this.

The next step is to make lewd remarks about her appearance, remarks that no one hears. When she reports it, nobody on the senior staff believes her story. But Evie hangs in there. She is a strong personality, not a helpless wreck.

There is also a little matter of a document that includes her name but that she didn’t produce.

“I think someone is setting me up as a scapegoat on a deal that could have an illegal element to it and that someone is undermining my reputation with the firm to make me vulnerable,” she shares with a friend.

When asked for examples she responds, This suspense novel is set in Manhattan, New York in a law firm. The title of the book refers to a person who leads the team in a jungle journey, the one who brushes away the spider webs that are in front of the group, the one who wears the spider when it suddenly appears. In this book Alan can be seen as the spider Evie wears.

The story is handled well. I enjoyed all the foreshadowing. The characters are believable and the building conflict is logical. Schaab handles the suspense and rising tension like a pro. This is an area she is very conversant with as she has dealt in the area of technology and intellectual property law for eight years in New York, Texas and California.

This book will be enjoyed by all who like high tension suspense tales.

DANE ROBERT SWANSON lives and does book reviews in Santa Monica. He

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 7, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/120707.pdf?ref=smdp.com)