Contrive to Kill — Rebecca A. Engel

Things aren't always what they seem to be.

Psychologist-turned-hairdresser Valerie Urniak learned that lesson when tragedy struck in her building. What at first appeared to be a terrible accident turned out to be something else entirely.

Things aren't always the way you remember them.

Valerie's sister Jill, from whom she'd been estranged for sixteen years, wanted to burrow her way back into Valerie's life. Jill promised to share information that could provide Valerie with closure to events in her own past. By giving in to her curiosity, Valerie found herself in a web of deception that dated back to her teenage marriage and beyond… with fatal results.

Contrive to Kill is Book 2 in the Valerie Urniak Mystery series, and picks up three months after Permanent Damage, Book 1, ends. The setting is Chicago, and the year 1973.

Books in the Valerie Urniak Mystery series:

Permanent Damage, Book 1
Contrive to Kill,, Book 2
Variants of Déjà Vu, Book 3
A Ring of Truth, Book 4
Too Soon, Book 5
Dangerous Undercurrents, Book 6
Zugzwang, Book 7

Book 8 in this series, Alternate Lives (working title), will be released in 2017.