Patricia Smiley

Assume nothing—that's the touchstone for every homicide investigation Detective Davie Richards undertakes. She approaches her latest case the same way, determined to learn as much about the victim as she does about the killer. But there's nothing about thirty-four-year-old Sara Montaine or her death that makes sense.

Was Sara a saint caring for her dying husband or a gold-digger with a sketchy background? Did she commit suicide or was

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Savvy management consultant Tucker Sinclair is trying to get her own firm off the ground in Los Angeles. But when you’re mixed up in a private investigator’s business, trouble is always a prospect. . . .

Tucker Sinclair is a free woman. She’s finally escaped corporate life to run her own consulting firm. But with freedom comes unpredictability. What was supposed to be a short stint helping private investigator Charley...