The Cavanaugh Quest — Thomas Gifford

Kim Blankenship was a beautiful widow with a murky past and a penchant for attracting men who, one by one, met a sudden deadly end.

But to Paul Cavanaugh, a reporter with an obsession for the truth, she was much more, and a new and irresistible passion was blurring his vision. Was she, like him, afloat in a sea of icy coincidence -- or did she hold the answer to a puzzle of violence, treachery and murder?