Employee of the Year by Dmitri Ragano

Employee of the Year is a mystery set in a credit card call center in Los Angeles. Temo McCarthy is a young phone agent in the Passion Financial collections department. He spends his days "dialing deadbeats", convincing broke, desperate credit card customers to pay their overdue balances. Temo wants to win the Employee of the Year award, a $100,000 prize that goes to the top agent in the call center. This will give Temo a solid foundation for life with his new wife Suzy and their baby on the way, a foundation he never had growing up in a broken home. The only thing that stands between Temo and the Employee of the Year award is his rival, a clever colleague named Roland Shavosian. Roland is nicknamed "The Voice" in the call center for his uncanny ability to persuade customers to pay their bills. The week before Passion's CEO is set to announce the Employee of the Year, Temo finds Roland murdered in the company parking lot. As police proceed with their investigation, Temo realizes he m