Lethal Legacy

Forensics is her forte. Working in Seattle's State Crime Lab, living on lovely Lomitas Island--where her father is local Medical Examiner--Dr. Amy Prescott has an eye for telling detail ... and a taste for deadly danger.

She has just been found dead on her blood-spattered kitchen floor. Smashed pieces of a Ming vase lie next to her. Sheriff Boyce hasn't a doubt as to who savagely murdered Mai Nguyen: Dr. Cam Nguyen, the victim's husband and Amy's trusted colleague.

While a stunned Cam sits in jail, unable to produce a single shred of evidence to prove his innocence, Amy scours the crime scene. And when newly married Nathan Blackthorn appears, she puts her past heartbreak aside to enlist his help. A hidden set of footprints and a trace of calcium carbonate soon lead deep into the heart of Wheeler's Southeast Asian community ... where deadly secrets from Cambodia's bloody past still seethe with deadly venom. As shadowy assassins stalk her, and an ancient child's tale points to stolen treasure, Amy must use all her wit and wiles to ferret out a long-buried truth or be the next to die.