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Angela's new case is full of dark secrets and scandal, but shocking events closer to home prove to be her biggest challenge yet . . . Nobody in Choutaeu Forest expected one of their most prominent citizens, socialite Selwyn Skipton, to be found dead in such salacious circumstances: strangled on satin bedsheets, a red letter A brutally stapled to his chest, in his private apartment above the Chouteau Forest Chocolate Shoppe. Selwyn was a good man. He gave to charity, supported local causes, and was married to his wife for more than twenty years. What did he do to deserve such a terrible end? As Death Investigator Angela Richman investigates, she uncovers Selwyn's dark secret, but also faces an unexpected, chilling conundrum closer to home . . .

The legend of the Cursed Crypt is claimed to be behind natural disasters in Chouteau Forest, but not murder. When Death Investigator Angela Richman finds the bodies of Trey Lawson and his fianc�e in the university crypt on Halloween, she is drawn into a chilling mystery. Has the legend taken a deadly turn, or is a dangerous killer on the loose?

The funeral for wealthy Chouteau Forest resident Sterling Chaney descends into chaos when he walks into the church alive. If not him, who died in the car accident? The ensuing media storm reveals secrets of Sterling's wealth, and he is subsequently shunned. When he dies in fresh a car accident, Death Investigator Angela Richman suspects foul play.

Entitlement pervades high society in Chouteau County, but that's under threat when a group known as the Ghost Burglars target the wealthiest citizens. When Tom Lockridge is brutally slain during a raid, those attitudes are taken to extremes as secrets and lies threaten to erupt. Angela Richman finds herself entangled in the murder investigation.

Angela Richman, Chouteau County death investigator, finds herself on a grim walk deep in the Missouri woods. The body of Terri Gibbons, the Forest High track star who went missing eight months ago, has been discovered in a muddy creek, and Angela is needed on the scene. Could a message found in Terri's shoe hold the key to catching her killer?

During Jessica Gray's one-woman show she manages to upset half of Chouteau Forest and her own entourage. When she suffers a deadly poisoning on her way to the airport Angela Richman's friend, Mario Gomez, is arrested and charged with the murder. Angela is sure of Mario's innocence, so sets out on her own to solve the case.

Angela Richman, a death investigator, reluctantly takes on the case of a missing girl, Juliet LaRouche, during the holidays. As she navigates the cold, harsh winter and the reluctance of wealthy teenagers and their parents to cooperate, she uncovers deep-seated biases against the local working class. With the new detective's blunt demeanor complicating matters, Angela races against time to find Juliet before she becomes just a memory, revealing the lengths the privileged will go to protect their 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.

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.

Originally published: New York: Obsidian, 2016.