Secrets, Lies, & Homicide ~ Paperback ~ Patricia Dusenbury

Secrets, Lies & Homicide is the second book in the Claire Marshall trilogy. Claire's construction company has a celebrity client. Tony Burke is a well-known racecar driver, perhaps better known as a playboy. He wants to restore his family house in New Orleans' Lower Garden District. When Claire talks him into opening his father's old studio, they find evidence of an old murder. Within a day, there's a second murder. Tony insists the two crimes, although years apart, are connected. Unfortunately, the most obvious link puts him on top of the list of suspects. Claire has been seeing a homicide detective, but her sympathies lie more and more with the chief suspect. Tony asks Claire to help him track down an old land deal that, he thinks, will lead to the killer. Their search uncovers a web of family secrets and old lies. DNA tests and money trails compound the confusion. Everyone has something to hide, and nothing stops the killer from striking again. Love is dangerous. Truth can be fatalAuthor BiographyAs a child, Patricia Dusenbury read under the covers when her parents thought she was asleep. (She still reads into the wee hours but now uses a Kindle.) Despite sleep deprivation, she managed to get through college and a career as an economic analyst/strategic planner. Now retired, she hopes to atone for all those dry reports by writing stories that people read for pleasure. Her first book, A Perfect Victim, won the 2015 EPIC (Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition) award for best mystery. The sequel, Secrets, Lies & Homicide, was an EPIC finalist and a top ten finisher in the Preditors and Editors Readers Poll. A House of Her Own, the third and final Claire Marshall novel, en nominated for a Rhone Award. Her work in progress, as yet untitled, is a Claymore Award finalist. You can learn more about Patricia and her writing on her web site, PatriciaDusenbury.com. Patricia lives on a very steep street in San Francisco. When she isn't reading or writing, she's hanging out with the grandkids or exploring the fabulous city that is her new home.