Böcker av R Franklin James

Genealogists can uncover more than family trees. Johanna Hudson, with her archeologist business partner and astute office assistant take on a client who claims to witness a high-profile murder and wants the reward, but it becomes a race to stay alive to collect.

A 30 year-old genealogist is forced to face the pain of her own past while discovering that her talents can be used to solve more than her clients'' ancestor family lines -- including blackmail and murder.Genealogist Johanna Hudson discovers that the intersection of unintended consequences and murder is unavoidable, and her determination to find an heir puts her in the path of a killer who is just as determined to stop her.

Remy Loh Bishop is a thirty year old forensic technician determined to clear her name after she was accused of evidence tampering in a murder case. Now employed as an appraiser for an auction house, she's still running down leads, but has a bigger problem when her first client ends up dead.

Hollis Morgan has survived imprisonment, received a pardon and persevered to finally become a probate attorney. Tough as she is, her newest case will further test her mettle. She discovers her client, Matthias Bell, is a deceased blackmailer whose last wish was to return the damaging documents letting his victims off the hook. It falls to Hollis to give them the good news. But it becomes apparent that Bell was murdered, and the victims of “Bell’s tolls” are now suspects. Hollis’ white-collar criminal past has left her with keen survival instincts. A gifted liar, she knows a liar when she sees one. A lot of people in this case are lying and one is a killer.On top of that, she’s also representing a dying stripper, a wealthy widow whose estranged daughter spurns her attempts at reconciliation, but whose husband sees the potential inheritance as mending all wounds.Clients aside, Hollis is defensive and wary. Her mother, who hasn’t spoken to her for years, needs a kidney, and Hollis is a match, but neither are ready to put away the past. With Hollis’ fiancé and emotional support off on an undercover mission for Homeland Security, she must count on her own survival instincts. She is swept along on an emotional roller coaster as her absent love and her family’s coldness take their own toll. Work is her salvation. The specter of a killer keeps her focused. Hollis has always had to rely on her wits, but now she finds that others who don’t have her well-being in mind are relying on them as well.Book 5 in the Hollis Morgan Mystery series, which began with The Fallen Angels Book Club.