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Angela Richman, Death Investigator Series

This series follows a unique death investigator navigating complex murder cases while confronting her own personal health crisis. She delves into investigations within wealthy and powerful circles, where truth is often obscured by privilege and influence. Each installment challenges her keen intellect and determination, forcing her to question her instincts as she fights to uncover justice against formidable odds. The narrative skillfully blends compelling mystery with a deeply personal struggle for recovery and truth.

Brain Storm
Ice Blonde
A Star is Dead
Fire and Ashes

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  1. 1

    Brain Storm

    • 305 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    3.6(44)Add rating

    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.

    Brain Storm
  2. 2

    Fire and Ashes

    • 271 pages
    • 10 hours of reading

    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.

    Fire and Ashes
  3. 3

    Ice Blonde

    • 166 pages
    • 6 hours of reading
    3.8(138)Add rating

    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.

    Ice Blonde
  4. 4

    A Star is Dead

    3.7(127)Add rating

    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.

    A Star is Dead