Elaine Viets – författare

The Blackness Before Me, by Mindy QuigleyHonest John Finds a Way, by Michael DellSpirited Death, by Carole Nelson DouglasHome Front Homicide, by Liz MillironThe Unseen Opponent, by P. A. De VoeThe Black Hand, by Peter W. J. HayesThe Trial of Madame Pelletier, by Susanna CalkinsEating Crow, by Carla CoupeMr. Nakamura''s Garden, by Valerie O. PattersonA Butler is Born, by Catriona McPhersonNight and Fog, by Marcia TalleyThe Seven, by Elaine VietsThe Lady''s Maid Vanishes, by Susan DalyYou Always Hurt the One You Love, by Shawn Reilly SimmonsThe Hand of an Angry God, by K. B. IngleeThe Cottage, by Charles ToddThe Measured Chest, by Mark ThielmanHe Done Her Wrong, by Kathryn O''SullivanThe Corpse Candle, by Martin EdwardsDeath on the Dueling Grounds, by Verena RoseThe Barter, by Su KopilMistress Threadneedle''s Quest, by Kathy Lynn EmersonA One-Pipe Problem, by John Gregory BetancourtThe Killing Game, by Victoria ThompsonThe Tredegar Murders, by Vivian LawrySummons for a Dead Girl, by K. B. OwenThe Velvet Slippers, by Keenan PowellThe Tragic Death of Mrs. Edna Fogg, by Edith MaxwellCrim Con, by Nancy HerrimanStrong Enough, by Georgia Ruth

The ultrawealthy families of Chouteau Forest may look down on a woman like death investigator Angela Richman, but they also rely on her. When a horrific car crash kills a Forest teenager, Angela is among the first on the scene. Her investigation is hardly underway, however, when she suffers a series of crippling strokes. Misdiagnosed by the resident neurologist, Dr. Gravois, and mended by gauche yet brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Jeb Travis Tritt, Angela faces a harrowing recovery.

It’s a drug-addled, hallucinating Angela who learns that Dr. Gravois has been murdered…and the chief suspect is the surgeon who saved her life. Angela doesn’t believe it, but can she trust her instincts? Her brain trauma brings doubts that she’ll ever recover her investigative skills. But she’s determined to save Dr. Tritt from a death-row sentence—even if her progress is thwarted at every turn by a powerful and insular community poised to protect its own.

In the exclusive, gated enclave of Olympia Forest Estates, death investigator Angela Richman watches a mansion go up in a fiery blaze. With it, seventy-year-old financier Luther Delor, a drunken, bed-hopping rhinestone cowboy. Embroiled in a bitter divorce, Delor may have scandalized Chouteau Forest, but his murder has united it against the accused: Delor’s twenty-year-old girlfriend, Kendra Salvato, an "outsider." With an engagement ring bigger than Chouteau County, she''s being railroaded straight to death row as a gold-digging killer.

All there is against Kendra is vicious gossip and anti-Mexican rage, and both are spreading like wildfire. Meanwhile, Angela is trying to douse the flames with forensic work that''s putting the Forest on edge. After all, facts could implicate one of their own. Now, sifting through the ashes of a vicious crime—and the guilty secrets of the privileged—only Angela can get to the truth, and prevent an innocent woman from getting burned.