Pat Nicolette

Murder in the Blood Pat Nicolette

Pat Nicolette's latest Nick Mercante mystery has something for everyone-murders, abundant twists and turns and surprising climaxes. Joseph Hobbs is found dead from an overdose of insulin causing a heart attack. His sister Daniella hires Nick to investigate insisting it was murder. Twin brothers Alex and Stuart Hobbs have a financial motive to kill their father, as do Alex's wife and Stuart's girlfriend. Meanwhile convicted felon Pamela Vickers is released from prison vowing revenge against Jason Spears who testfied at her trial. Vickers meets Connie Benedetto and enlists her ex-husband Leo Drakos to romance Spears's wife Laura Sutton. Seeking to protect Laura, Spears is lured into a trap which results in murder. Nick and homicide detective Tawana Briggs join forces to solve the cases and must overcome clever adversaries, missing Confedetate half dollars, possibly planted evidence and rigged DNA. Devising their own deceptions, Nick and Tawana stage two confrontations with the suspects to find the truth