The Bequest

by Nancy Boyarsky

Overview

Nicole Graves, still reeling from her London kidnapping in The Swap, is struggling to balance work at L.A.'s most prestigious law firm and a long-distance romance with her English lover. Things go sideways when she tracks down a missing colleague. The murder of the firm's in-house investigator, his mysterious wealth, and his inexplicable bequest make Nicole a target for the police, the paparazzi, and the killer. When Nicole's life takes an unexpected turn, she uncovers evil and corruption among the city's most powerful people. The fast-paced mystery unravels against the backdrop of L.A. with its peculiar mix of balmy weather, the celebrity-crazed media, and a corrupt power structure hidden by the veneer of glamour and wealth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611531909
Publisher:	Torchflame Books
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Series:	Nicole Graves Mystery , #2
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

The Bequest: A Nicole Graves Mystery is Nancy Boyarsky's second novel, following The Swap, which is the first of the Nicole Graves mysteries. Before turning to mysteries, Nancy coauthored Backroom Politics, a New York Times notable book, with her husband, Bill Boyarsky. She has written several textbooks on the justice system as well as articles for publications including the Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and McCall's. She also contributed to political anthologies, including In the Running, about women's political campaigns. In addition to her writing career, she was communications director for political affairs for ARCO. Readers are invited to connect with Nancy through her website at nancyboyarsky.com.

Editorial Reviews

2017-06-06
Back from an eventful trip to London (The Swap, 2017), legal office manager Nicole Graves finds her homecoming to LA just as replete with criminal mischief, some of it from quite unexpected sources.Now that Nicole's back, somebody—make that she—can finally check on Robert Blair, who hasn't shown up at his job as investigator for Bascomb, Rice, Smith & Di Angelo for five days. She finds him fatally shot in his swanky home in the Hollywood Hills, a setting that provides more surprise than his death. But Nicole's bewilderment over how Robert could have afforded such palatial digs rapidly gives way to bigger, more intimate questions when she realizes he's kept detailed files on her, named her as beneficiary of the company's modest life insurance policy, and indeed left her his considerable estate. Naturally, the press, led by the vultures of Extra Hot News, camp outside her home and office, and in the absence of Ronald Reinhardt, the mysterious British agent who romanced her in London but has now vanished except for the robo-bouquets that keep arriving from him, Nicole is grateful for the attentions of architect Josh Mulhern, whose private emails to other correspondents she duly forgives herself for reading, and she is suspicious of the motives of skirt-chasing new BRS&D partner Rick Sargosian. Nicole's place gets broken into, she's pointedly asked to take some time off from her publicity-shy firm, and when she decides to search Robert's home on her own, she's kidnapped by another pair who've had exactly the same idea. Her sister keeps warning her that she has to be careful about whom to trust, but never fear: Nicole always trusts exactly the right people. Whew. Boyarsky's weightless complications expertly combine menace with bling, making the heroine's adventures both nightmarish and dreamy.

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