The Longest Fraud Author:Maggie Gibson Setting up shop as a private investigator was easier than ex-cop Grace de Rossa had thought. With ex-hooker Phoebe Lamplighter's assistance, she has a new office, a neew flat, even a new, if somewhat unconventional, receptionist. All she needs now are some clients. — Tessa Peace seems to fit the bill: Suspecting her h... more »usband, Arren, of infidelity, she wants him followed. When nothing seems amiss they resign the case only to have him turn up very dead a short time later. Suspected suicide soon turns into murder and when two of his friends meet a similar end, things really begin to hot up. Delving into the past, Grace discovers a deep dark secret that has come back to haunt, not only the main protagonists but, more seriously, their son.
Meanwhile Grace's personal life is far from rosy. Between her ex-husband, the mother-in-law from hell and the shadow of past accusations threatening a new relationship, she's got more than enough to occupy her. But the case has to be solved and cracking it before her erstwhile colleagues do become a personal mission.« less