An Edgar Award Finalist from a writer who-s been compared to Michael Crichton, Alfred Hitchcock, and Raymond Chandler takes us to the most menacing core of California-s upper crust, a class of billionaires with more money than they could spend in eternity.
Who is Claire Gravesend?
So wonders PI Lee Crowe when he finds her dead, in a fine cocktail dress, on top of a Rolls Royce, in the most dangerous neighborhood in San Francisco. Claire-s mother, Olivia, is one of the richest people in California. She doesn-t believe the coroner: her daughter did not kill herself. Olivia hires Crowe, who-having just foiled a federal case against a cartel kingpin-is eager for distraction. But the questions about the Gravesend family pile up fast.
First, the autopsy reveals round scars running down Claire-s spine, old marks Olivia won-t explain. Then, Crowe visits Claire-s Boston townhouse and has to fend off an armed intruder. Is it the Feds out for r
