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Publisher Description
A lovelorn, Portland P.I. must prove a man's innocence when no one else will in this murder mystery from the author of Betting Blind.
Lennox Cooper, flinty ex-cop and poker playing private detective, stands alone in championing Tomek Jagoda, darling son of a local crime family, accused of murdering his high-living girlfriend. The cops have proof that will send Tomek to prison for life.
Meanwhile, prosecuting the case is a Viking goddess of a woman, as smart as she is stunning, who draws everyone's adoration. Next to her, Lennox feels like a garden gnome. It doesn't help that August Kline, Lennox's boss and Tomek's defense attorney, is ready to throw his client under the bus in a plea deal that carries a ten-year sentence just to date the prosecutor.
As Lennox untangles all the lies surrounding the case, she sees deeper into Tomek's humanity and into her own. She realizes that she's in love with Kline, who's in lust with the prosecutor. Now, if Lennox hopes to truly save an innocent man, she must wager her job, her love, and her own safety to find the killer…
"Readers will look forward to seeing more of the feisty and resourceful Lennox."—Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Gardner's strong third crime novel featuring Portland, Ore., PI Lennox Cooper (after 2016's Betting Blind), Lennox returns home from Starbucks one morning to find a woman of about 70 sitting in her living room. Fearing the intruder might have a gun in her oversized handbag, Lennox impulsively throws the cup of coffee she's carrying at the woman and races up the hall. By the time Lennox returns with the pistol she keeps in her office, the housebreaker is mopping up the coffee stains on the rug. After apologizing for not waiting on the porch, the woman introduces herself as Idzi Jagoda, whose mentally disabled 31-year-old son, Tomek, has been charged with murdering his girlfriend, librarian Hadley Eberhart. Sure of Tomek's innocence, Idzi, who hints that crime is the family business (how else did she get into Lennox's locked house?), hires Lennox to help prove it. Lennox is soon running up against Jill Rykoff, "the super smart and totally gorgeous prosecutor" in the case, as well as Tomek's defense attorney, August Kline, whose plea deal strategy she opposes. Readers will look forward to seeing more of the feisty and resourceful Lennox.
