Playing With Matches is Live!!

Just found out that my first Riley Drake Mystery, PLAYING WITH MATCHES, has gone live on Kindle and Nook! Very excited.

This story is not at all cozy. Very different from my White House Chef and Manor House mysteries, which is why I'm bringing it out under a pseudonym.

Here's what it's about:

As a female PI in Chicago, Riley Drake doesn't get the respect she deserves. Why should she? Right now her only client is PS Consultants, a high-class matchmaking enterprise, for whom she runs discreet background checks.

But then Riley is hired by billionaire John Stratton who is desperate to resume dating and make his own love connection. The handsome widower would be quite the catch—if it weren't for the fact that he probably murdered his wife.

Stratton’s woes are only part of Riley’s problems. Other clients—a TV celebrity with sexual-perception issues, a Trump-like entrepreneur with an embarrassing secret, and a worshipful drug-addict trying to go straight—keep her running through the streets of Chicago, ready to take down anyone who gets in her way.

Riley is determined to discover the truth about all of them, even though she knows playing with matches means you sometimes get burnt.