The Drowning Pool

A romantic evening with her favorite police lieutenant is shattered for librarian Kim Reynolds when a body is found floating in the pool of her apartment complex. Everyone at La Reine Gardens knew the victim—he was a player, womanizer and user who made a lot of women, and their husbands, very angry. Someone stabbed him then tossed him in the pool, and for detective Mike Gardner and a very intuitive Kim, there is no shortage of suspects.

Adding to the mystery are thefts involving high-grade pharmaceuticals, a woman suspiciously pushed down a flight of stairs and another deadly discovery in a ravine. Seems there might be more at stake here than a crime of passion. As Gardner and Kim get closer to the truth, they discover a tangle of greed, duplicity and twisted motives. But the most shocking revelation of all may be the identity of the killer.…