False Front
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
A woman is hanging from a balcony in a perfectly composed suicide scene. But her husband doesn't buy it . . . and wants Lucinda Pierce to find the killer.
Candace Eagleton is dead and although it appears to be a suicide Homicide Lieutenant Lucinda Pierce is convinced it's murder and is determined to find the killer.
Meanwhile, Charles Rowland gives FBI agent—and Lucinda's boyfriend—Jack Lovett vague details linking another murder to someone at the heart of the US government. But before Jake can find out more, Charles bolts—and is killed. When a scrap of paper is found in Charles's apartment with a list of names that includes Candace's, it's clear the two murders are linked—and there may be more to follow . . .
This is the fifth book in the critically acclaimed Lucinda Pierce Mysteries by Edgar Award–winning true-crime writer Diane Fanning.
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At the start of Edgar-finalist Fanning's absorbing fifth Lucinda Pierce mystery (after 2010's Twisted Reason), the Virginia homicide lieutenant looks into the apparent suicide of Candace Eagleton, found hanged in her lavishly decorated house overlooking the James River. The victim's husband, Frank Eagleton, says his wife was murdered. When a search of the house turns up a note Candace wrote to Frank that states she plans to leave him before he kills her, Frank becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Meanwhile, Lucinda's FBI agent boyfriend, Jake Lovett, follows up the claim of a small-time crook in fear of his life that he helped bury the body of a woman 30 years earlier in or just outside federal land, a crime that could be linked to a high-ranking person in the U.S. government. Lucinda and Jake, no surprise, soon discover a link between their respective cases. Credible characters bolster a well-crafted plot.
