Thread of Evidence — Frank Smith

A TANGLED WEAVE

Building contractor James Bolen is found brutally murdered in a posh hotel room in Broadminster, yet Detective, Chief Inspector Net Paget reads more into a crime scene mode to look like a local prostitute fatally stabbed the victim.

Suspecting the killer had targeted the builder with a vengeance, Paget looks to Bolen's family and business partners for clues, and uncovers a twisted skein of secrets, vendettas, greed and duplicity. Convinced that the missing prostitute--seen fleeing the hotel that night--can identify the killer, Paget and his partner, John Tregalles, scour the missing girl's turf...and find yet another body.

In the shadows. a killer plots. In her secret hideaway, the terrified young woman waits. Now Paget mast race against time--and a killer--to keep her alive.