Death Duties (A Rose Bennett Mystery #3)

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.

Alice Blacklaws thought she knew Nathan Kingsley. A talented sportsman, an honest businessman, and a doting fiancé, he’d loved and cherished both Alice and her daughter Olivia long before they decided to tie the knot. But when someone pays a contract killer to shoot Nathan dead on the day of their wedding, and his devious brother Luke tries to disinherit the grieving Alice of everything Nathan had ever done for her, Alice is forced to think again.

It’s no surprise to Rose Bennett that the ENB want an investigation into Nathan Kingsley’s affairs. The violent death of a high profile customer is bound to be bad for business, especially when his bank accounts show signs of financial irregularity. But as Rose attempts to untangle Nathan’s twisted financial affairs, and DI George Mulligan finds himself out of his depth in the hunt for the killer, a pattern begins to emerge.

Nathan Kingsley was keeping secrets, secrets someone wanted him to carry to the grave. And as those secrets are revealed, and danger comes ever closer to Alice, Olivia and Luke, Rose finds herself facing the very worst kind of killer, a killer without a conscience. For the man who killed Nathan Kingsley, compassion is nothing if the price is right. And duty is just a business obligation, to deliver death to order for whoever is paying the bill.