Set in San Francisco's Tenderloin District. When hired by a rich, young brunette from L.A. to find her missing twin sister, Nell Fury is suddenly mixed up with a shady politician and involved in big-time insurance fraud. Amateur sleuth CC Scott is back as she and her lover Barbara vacation on the Oregon Coast where they discover a body on the beach and become entangled with the 112 souls that inhabit the village of Abalone Beach. Getting away with murder. CC, a semi-retired therapist, and her lover Barbara Bettencourt, find their peaceful existence shattered by a rampaging sniper.
CC suspects the sniper to be a client.
But a copycat soon poses even greater danger. Naiad Press, 1991. Tough, blunt-talking investigative reporter Hollis Carpenter is beset by strange events. Her apartment is broken into. A cop friend is murdered.