Secrets in Death

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called to Du Vin, an upscale Manhattan nightspot, on a cold February evening. A woman has been stabbed in the brachial artery and bled out where she stood. She is Larinda Mars, who called herself a social information reporter. Most people would call her a professional gossip.

Larinda also kept her juiciest discoveries out of print. She used them in a side business as a blackmailer, picking rich and prominent targets, learning what they most wanted buried and then draining them of money. Whoever killed her has made her pay in blood.

Eve had no liking for Larinda Mars, yet murder sits even worse with her. The investigation sends her into the private shames of everyone Larinda squeezed, and any one of them could hold the knife. Rumor and fact have to be pulled apart, and Eve may learn things about the people involved that she would rather not know.

A new entry in the series, this police procedural is a murder mystery built around a victim with many enemies. The pressure comes from digging through other people's secrets, and the suspect list grows with each one.