An Inconvenient Death — Richard V. Barry

Here's a mystery novel with a twist, for in exploring a death, it illuminates life. A New York City detective is assigned to investigate the apparent suicide of a young, celebrated billionaire, the son of a powerful U.S. Senator and a man who had everything to live for. In exploring the world of the rich, the powerful and the privileged, the detective sees mounting evidence that contradicts a suicide. Now he must match wits with two brilliant men who claim to have witnessed the suicide. The lifestyle of vast fortunes, huge estates, private planes, supermodels and exclusive clubs unfolds before the detective's dazzled eyes. In struggling to find the key to a baffling puzzle of the deceased's life and death, the tenacious detective â€" and maybe the reader â€" is inevitably led to confront his own life head-on.