Large Target — Lynne Murray

QUEEN-SIZED MURDER

While in San Diego, plus-sized PI. Jo Fuller does a favor for the worried and way too fashionably thin Sally Rhymer by looking into her daughter Amy's involvement with some new-age do-gooders. Jo, as sassy as she is statuesque, becomes the life of the family party when she tells off Mrs. Rhymer's drunken and disorderly ex, Admiral Rhymer--and unwittingly jumps from the fat into the fire.

It seems big, beautiful Amy's problems are small compared to the rest of her larger-than-life family. The admiral has disappeared and a ransom note confirms Jo's worst suspicion: The old goat has been kidnapped. Then the quite unnatural death of the admiral's friend, a defense contractor, and the disappearance of some top-secret documents turn the case into a full-blown murder... putting Jo in the crosshairs of a killer's line of fire.