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After returning to her job as a prosecutor, Mia Quinn finds herself in the middle of a huge murder investigation and, if that’s not enough, she has a teenage son and a 4 year old daughter that require her attention, a pile of unpaid piles due to her new widow status, and a not so trust-worthy detective partner. A Matter of Trust keeps you turning the pages just to find out what happens.
When life is murder, who can you trust?
One minute Mia Quinn is in her basement, chatting on the phone with a colleague at the prosecutor’s office. The next minute she hears a gunshot over the line, and Mia listens in horror as her colleague and friend Colleen bleeds to death.
Mia’s a natural for heading up the murder investigation, but these days it’s all she can do to hold her life together. As a new widow with a pile of debts, a troubled teenaged son, and a four-year-old who wakes up screaming at night, she needs more time with her family, not less—and working Colleen’s case will be especially demanding. But Colleen was her friend, and she needs to keep her job. So Mia reluctantly teams up with detective Charlie Carlson to investigate. But the deeper they dig, the more complications unfold—even the unsettling possibility that someone may be coming after her.
Lis Wiehl’s signature plot twists and relatable characters shine in this absorbing series debut . . . with an intriguing cameo from her best-selling Triple Threat series.
The book begins with the brutal shooting of Mia’s colleague and friend, Colleen. Mia is tasked with heading up the investigation as it is suspected that Colleen’s death is related to the murder of another one of Mia’s colleagues four years ago. Unlike your average book, this one shifts point of view through multiple characters to help tell a more detailed story filled with tons of surprises. This makes for an interesting twist as you start to piece together each of the views to find out if the murders are connected and who’s behind them.
One minute Mia Quinn is in her basement, chatting on the phone with a colleague at the prosecutor’s office. The next minute there’s a gunshot over the line, and Mia listens in horror as her colleague and friend Colleen bleeds to death. Mia’s a natural for heading up the murder investigation, but these days she has all she can do to hold her life together. As a new widow with a pile of debts, a troubled teenaged son, and a four-year-old who wakes up screaming at night, she needs more time with her family, not less—and working Colleen’s case will be especially demanding. But Colleen was her friend, and she needs to keep her job. So she reluctantly teams up with detective Charlie Carlson to investigate Colleen’s death. But the deeper they dig, the more complications unfold—even the unsettling possibility that someone may be coming after her. Lis Wiehl’s signature plot twists and relatable characters shine in this absorbing series debut . . . with an intriguing cameo from her best-selling Triple Threat series.
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