From Publishers Weekly
In Jacob's smart seventh Kali O'Brien legal thriller (after Intent to Harm), the San Francisco DA faces two horrifying possibilities: Did her brother, John, kill himself in remorse over murdering ex-girlfriend Sloane Winslow and her young housekeeper, Olivia Perez, or was John murdered by their real killer? After receiving the shocking call about her brother's "accident," grieving Kali heads for Tucson, Ariz., to meet with her sister, Sabrina, to settle John's estate under a cloud of confusion about a brother she rarely communicated with. After the sisters discover their brother was the prime suspect in the double homicide and his estate the subject of a wrongful death civil suit, Kali is shocked to find John might also be connected to a young stripper's murder and the disappearance of a 16-year-old runaway. Jacobs deftly juggles a large cast and a multilayered plot while compassionately depicting Kali's struggle with family issues. (Feb.)
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Product Description
A body count that’s rising. A lone witness on the run. A killer who’ll do anything to buy silence. It’s the most dangerous case of attorney Kali O’Brien’s career—and it’s hitting way too close to home. The last time Kali spoke to her brother, John, he was desperate to tell her something but too drunk to get it out. Now he’s dead, an apparent suicide by overdose. That would be shocking enough, but the cops have more bad news: John was also the lead suspect in the recent double homicide of two women in Tucson. The victims include the wealthy heiress of the corporation John worked for and Olivia Perez, a pretty college coed whose family is determined to make someone pay for the crime, and Kali’s at the top of their list—if she can’t clear his name first. It’s a tricky case that’s about to get even trickier. Kali didn’t know her brother very well, and in death, the only clue he’s left behind is as damning as it is mysterious. Hidden in the pages of his dictionary is a photo of three attractive young women. One is Olivia Perez. One is a street-tough runaway named Crystal. The third woman—a strip club dancer and porn actress—has just been found in a ditch, the victim of a brutal slaying. As shocking as the woman’s death is her connection to Kali’s brother. How did they know each other? What was John trying to tell Kali the night he died? And would someone kill to keep him from saying it? Suddenly her brother’s suicide is starting to look a lot like murder. Kali’s only hope for solving the case lies in finding the last girl in the picture—a witness who knows far more than she should, maybe too much to live—and Kali has to get to her before the killer does. It’s a search that will plunge her into the secrets and lies of her own family and deep into the sex industry’s hidden underworld of going-nowhere-fast girls looking for easy money, where fantasies can be had for a price, blackmail is deadly, and silence can be bought with blood. And if Kali isn’t careful, she could lead a cunning killer straight to the last target while putting herself in line to be the next victim...
