Death in Smoke
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Author
Barbara Elle
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2.99
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Death in Smoke is a psychological mystery novel by Barbara Elle. It follows artist Leila Goodfriend as she discovers a bloodied body in a snowbank. It’s Susie, the ex-girlfriend of Steve, a failed photographer the dead woman dumped months before. Leila is in a rebound relationship with Detective Grace, who warns her not to investigate, again. Despite his warning Leila tracks a trail of blood and revenge from Cape Cod to a Kansas, where a ritualistic murder reveals a cold case killer—and a deadly secret from Leila’s past.
A bloodied body buried on Cape Cod. A cold case in Kansas.
Can Leila track down a killer?
After a blinding snowstorm, artist and amateur sleuth Leila Goodfriend wakes early in the morning for a walk in the woods to think, to escape. When she stumbles on the bloodied body of a woman buried in a snowbank, Leila digs desperately, her fingers bleed, shaking with fear, she knows who it is.
Death in Smoke is a psychological mystery novel by Barbara Elle. It follows artist Leila Goodfriend as she discovers a bloodied body in a snowbank. It’s Susie, the ex-girlfriend of Steve, a failed photographer the dead woman dumped months before. Leila is in a rebound relationship with Detective Grace, who warns her not to investigate, again. Despite his warning Leila tracks a trail of blood and revenge from Cape Cod to a Kansas, where a ritualistic murder reveals a cold case killer—and a deadly secret from Leila’s past.
A bloodied body buried on Cape Cod. A cold case in Kansas.
Can Leila track down a killer?
After a blinding snowstorm, artist and amateur sleuth Leila Goodfriend wakes early in the morning for a walk in the woods to think, to escape. When she stumbles on the bloodied body of a woman buried in a snowbank, Leila digs desperately, her fingers bleed, shaking with fear, she knows who it is.
Leila is at a creative retreat with her eccentric group of Red Barn artist friends, on a remote island off Cape Cod. On the rebound from a relationship, Leila finds herself attracted to Detective John Grace, a partner in both romance and crime investigation.
However, when the police arrive on the crime scene, Detective Grace warns her not to investigate a murder case, again.
As an artist, Leila knows that bodies have a story to tell. Leila slips into Susie’s autopsy—and the body reveals an enigmatic clue:
Susie died on a bed of long-stemmed roses.
Steve, the police’s prime murder suspect, begs Leila to help him—swearing he has evidence that Susie’s killer is a suspect in a cold case in Kansas. Leila confronts the suspect, pocketing an intriguing piece of evidence—an arrowhead.
Tracking the trail of blood and revenge from Cape Cod to a Native American casino in Kansas, where a ritualistic murder reveals a cold case killer—and a deadly secret from Leila’s past.
