SHORT CHANGE by PATRICIA SMILEY

di elisarolle

Savvy management consultant Tucker Sinclair is trying to get her own firm off the ground in Los Angeles. But when you get mixed up in a private investigato's business, trouble is always a prospect...

Tucker Sinclair is a free woman. She’s finally escaped from the oppressively corporate Aames & Associates, and now runs her own business consulting firm. But with freedom comes unpredictability. What was supposed to be a short stint helping private investigator Charley Tate get his practice established turns into a full time job. Charley pushes her to go beyond the call of duty—to try to save not only his business, but possibly his life.

It all starts when Eve Lawson stumbles into the Tate Investigations office hoping to find out who is following her. But who would want to follow a bland writer working on a book about LA’s post-WWII real estate boom? With Eve’s wardrobe hopelessly stuck in the ’80s, Tucker can only imagine it’s the fashion police. But work means much-needed income for Tucker and Charley. They soon learn that they struck gold when this far-fetched case explodes into murder— and Eve Lawson, who’s gone missing, is the prime suspect. Now Tucker and Charley have to piece together the complex life of Eve Lawson, the troubled daughter of a real estate tycoon. She’s been writing a memoir that may have rattled a few skeletons in the family closet. Tucker is on the case— and not even L.A. traffic can stop her...