The oldest motive in the book. A powerful man. Secret hotel rooms. Late-night phone calls to numbers that don't belong to his wife.
When Callahan pulls the Senator's records, everything seems to fall into place. A wife from a weapons dynasty, humiliated one too many times. A clean crime scene that whispers contract killing. A trail that leads straight back to Amelia Thornton.
But in this case, the obvious answer has a habit of being the wrong one. And the week Grimes spends chasing betrayal in the bedroom may have cost her the real betrayal hiding in plain sight.
Three weeks of dead ends. Three weeks of cologne and alibis and false trails that all led somewhere loud... and nowhere true. Then Mark...
The DNA results come back. The case against Nate Brannick starts to crack. Grimes drives two hours to a dead man's house and finds...
She wasn't on the guest list. She came in through a service entrance, in a dark coat, with tears on her face. She wanted...
