She’d hung a lot of big abstract paintings on the walls—not a Kandinski or a de Kooning— He paused to gesture at the art on his walls. She got to the Blue Cellar a few minutes early to make sure she wouldn’t have to share a booth with Chip. It appeared he’d tried to fight off the intruders and had fallen or been knocked down and struck his head against the corner of a marble fireplace. So she wasn’t upset when the IRS had stepped in and put a hold on the estate until Blair’s four million dollar house sold and taxes were collected on his illegal, unreported earnings.

Nicole comes home from London, the setting for Book 1, and keeps expecting a contact from her English lover.But I will say that we’ve looked into the MO of the perps, and it fits the pattern of the earlier kidnappings.

It authorized a wire transfer of any amount due you into your checking account if our appeal was successful. Many thanks to the author / INscribe Digital / Netgalley for the digital copy of this crime fiction.He seemed to take a special interest in her, always stepping over to chat when she came in or they ran into each other in the building’s lobby. Nicole has street-smarts and is strong-willed, exactly what I like to discover in a leading character. But things don’t turn out the way Nicole expects: The Londoners fail to arrive in LA and appear to be missing. The statue was a stunning copy of Winged Victory, except that this version was no more than three-feet high, gilded, and—unlike the original—complete with arms and a head.