Dead Ringer (A Rose Bennett Mystery #2)

By Mariah Kingdom

Rose Bennett isn’t your usual private investigator. Specializing in financial crime, she’s become case-hardened to dealing with those who deceive and embezzle in their pursuit of cold, hard cash, and pretty much accustomed to working alone. She’s had no choice really … because Rose is the investigator the East & Northern Bank calls in when the criminal is on the inside, and being the company mole isn’t much of a way to make friends.

A cruel November sleet is blowing off the North Sea when Andy Miller’s body is found outside his Scarborough mansion flat, crushed under the wheels of his own BMW. There’s no question that Andy was murdered, and as the repercussions of his death ripple out across the bank where he worked, they hit those around him hard. His girlfriend is inconsolable, his best friend is bereft, and his best friend’s girlfriend … well, she used to be Andy’s girlfriend, so things are complicated.

It’s complicated for Rose Bennett, too. Dispatched north to Scarborough to resolve a harassment case against the ENB, Andy Miller’s death brings a most unwelcomed twist to her investigation. When it comes to murder, Rose doesn’t claim to be an expert. But she knows about human nature, and she knows when people are lying. And as she steps in to help DI George Mulligan bring Andy’s killer to justice, old crimes at the bank begin to surface, and it soon becomes pretty clear that not everyone who claimed to love Andy Miller was telling the truth.