Borrowed time

As a former cop, P.I. Cass Raines knows that doing favors can ultimately do one in . . .

Being a P.I. means riding out a lot of slow patches. It also means danger has a way of showing up in the most mundane placeslike Cass's go-to diner, where new delivery guy Jung Byson wants to enlist her help. Jung's friend, Tim Ayers, scion of a wealthy Chicago family, has been found dead, floating in Lake Michigan near his luxury boat. And Jung is convinced there's a murderer on the loose . . .

Cass reluctantly begins digging only to discover that Tim Ayers was terminally ill. So why would anyone kill a dying manif he was killed at all? Working her connections on both sides of the law, Cass tries to point the police in the right direction. But violence is escalating around her, and Cass's persistence has already attracted unwanted attention, uncovering sinister secrets that Cass may end up taking to her grave.