Dmitri Fane is a world-class pairs figure skater. Just a few weeks before the Olympic trials, he goes missing. His partner, Dara, hires Charlie Swift and her investigative firm to find him. Charlie's business partner is Gigi Goldman, who became a partner when her husband left her with a lot of debt. Gigi's daughter, Kendall, is a teenager with a teen-sized attitude and an even bigger crush on Dmitri. However, since Kendall is a figure skater herself, she may be able to shed some light on the gossip at the rink and on the circuit.

Charlie begins methodically investigating the usual avenues until Dmitri's coach is brutally attacked and ends up in a coma. Not long after that, one of Dmitri's co-workers (he moonlit for a catering business to pay the training fees) is killed. Charlie begins to sense that there's more to this than Dara originally told her, especially when Dara's mom calls and says that Dara has disappeared. Dara's mom subsequently hires Charlie to find Dmitri in the hopes that once Dmitri is found, Dara will soon follow.

Meanwhile, Charlie is trying to keep Kendall from interfering in the investigation, and Gigi is clamouring to try out a plethora of devices she's bought from online PI sites, as well as techniques she's learnt from surveillance classes she's taken since joining the firm. Fortunately, Charlie is helped by Connor Montgomery, a detective on the local police force. The flip side, though, is that Connor seems to have a thing for Charlie, and she's still figuring out how she feels about him.

Since Charlie has her hands full with Dmitri's disappearance, she lets Gigi handle a case looking for a runaway who has suddenly disappeared from a shelter. This results in laugh-out loud scenes, as Gigi tries some of her gadgets. But it isn't all fun and games - where is the runaway known as Kungfu? And could his disappearance actually have something to do with Dmitri's?

SWIFT EDGE is a light-hearted mystery that is fun and funny, peppered with great characters, and totally un-put-downable. The two missing persons cases were each intriguing, and neither was so easily solved that the fun was taken out of reading the book. The characters of Charlie and Gigi are both well-written, although Gigi can, at times, seem a bit of a caricature. Overall, though, the plot was well though- out, and I'm sorry that I missed the first book in the series. I'll be keeping an eye out for it, as well as looking for other books in this series as they are released.