Nan Vining #1
Alibi
August 2015
On Sale: July 21, 2015
Featuring: Nan Vining; Emily
ISBN: 0804178941 EAN: 9780804178945 Kindle: B00ONUYEVE e-Book Add to Wish List
For fans of Patricia Cornwell, Tana French, and Lisa Gardner
comes a razor-sharp novel of suspense featuring Detective
Nan Vining—a single mother whose worlds collide when her
teenage daughter stumbles upon a grisly double homicide.
When she gets the call, Nan Vining responds as a mother
first and a detective second. Her daughter, Emily, has made
a gruesome discovery in a secluded section of a Pasadena
park: a pretty, popular young teacher from Emily’s high
school and a bright yet troubled transfer student—both dead
and bloody in a copse of trees. But the crime scene isn’t
the only thing that seems off to Detective Vining. There’s
also the cocky classmate who was with Emily in the park—the
boyfriend she never knew about. What else doesn’t she know
about her daughter?
As she attempts to channel both her maternal and
investigative instincts into one single point of focus,
Vining’s superiors at the Pasadena Police Department are
moving at lightning speed. Before the evidence has even been
processed, the case is closed as a clear-cut murder/suicide:
a disturbed teenager murders his teacher, then takes his own
life. Vining doesn’t buy it. Now she’s chasing dangerous,
powerful people with secrets they would kill for—and taking
them down means risking her own flesh and blood.