Adjusted to Death — Jaqueline Girdner

BODY OF EVIDENCE

In Kate Jasper's offbeat, totally California lifestyle, there's no such thing as "routine"--a routine visit to her chiropractor, for example, leads to cold-blooded murder when a dead body turns up on the examining table. There are no known motives for the death of Scott Younger--only a handful of possible, and very unlikely, killers seated in the doctor's waiting room.

But Kate suspects that old-fashioned vengeance is behind this thoroughly modern murder. Now Marin County's one and only vegetarian-divorcee-detective finds herself in the midst of a positively bone-chilling crime...