A Crack in Everything : A Susan Callisto Mystery

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerst, Angela, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Other Title:

Crack in Everything

A Crack in Everything

Place of Publication:

Poisoned Pen Press

Summary:

Politics, money, love . . . what could go wrong?Susan Callisto is pushing thirty and taking stock. Before she traded financial security at a Boston law firm for sandals and jeans in Waltham, she specialized in real estate law. Now she has reinvented herself as a political consultant for ordinary people seeking low-level office. Her income may be dicey, but Susan loves her new lifeuntil her sometime boyfriend, Detective Lieutenant Michael Benedict, dumps her without a goodbye. Not one to mope, Susan uses humor and perpetual motion to push away the pain.Susan's new world is one where politics can turn deadly and even love may not survive. So when local high roller Charles Renfrow offers her a huge retainer to advise his political campaign, Susan is wary. Why would a scientist stalking the human genome want to be mayor of a small Massachusetts town? Finding the answer takes Susan through a maze of toxic secrets including those floating around Renfrow's biotech company. On her way to confront him, Susan instead finds the body of his beautiful assistant. Assigned to the case, Michael reenters Susan's lifeWhen Michael's suspicions settle on Robbie Baird, yet another, and favorite, of Susan's clients, Susan elbows her way into the investigation. She hopes to prove Michael wrong. As she probesand lays her own life on the lineSusan uncovers a crack in everything.