A Case of Loyalties

Was Tricia Rayborn telling the truth when he said she didn't kill Clifford, Hawkins?

Tricia Rayborn was a typical California teenager. She drank a little beer. She smoked a little pot. She enjoyed a little excitement.

Excitement was running high on graduation night. Tricia didn't exactly mean to steal a car, but who could resist a little spin in the big white Buick that just happened to have been left alone with the motor running?

Carrie Rayborn was a not-so-typical single mother. She worked days as a bookkeeper for an Oakland insurance agency, but she was really an artist. All she wanted out of life was to kick back, do a few paintings, and enjoy life with Tricia.

Carrie could believe it when Sergeant Cruz telephoned to say her daughter had taken someone else's car on a joy ride. But she couldn't believe it when Cruz's partner, Sergeant Goldstein, escorted her into a room marked HOMICIDE.

Before the week was out, she wouldn't know what to believe....

Introducing the unique detective team of sergeants Carlo Cruz and Jay Goldstein in a mystery set in Oakland, California.