Title: Most wanted
Subtitle: A Novel of Suspense
Description: A betrayed wife and dedicated mother suddenly forced to raise her six-month-old daughter alone, Melanie Vargas is also an ambitious, hard-working professional who has had to bite and claw for recognition in the federal prosecutor's office. Then, while strolling with her baby girl on a steamy New York night, Melanie stumbles onto the kind of high-profile case that could make a career: the burning townhouse of a wealthy former prosecutor, its owner's tortured, murdered corpse smoldering within. Melanie Vargas wants this chance -- she needs it -- and she'll do whatever it takes to get it.But a headline-grabbing opportunity of a lifetime could cost Melanie more than she ever imagined, as it pulls her closer to a dangerous affair with a secretive, enigmatic FBI agent -- and closer still to a sadistic human monster moving expertly through the city's darkest shadows.
Subjects: Women lawyers, Fiction, Puerto Rican women, Suspense, Public prosecutors, Melanie Vargas (Fictitious character), Large type books, Fiction, legal, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Women lawyers, fiction
Places: New York (N.Y.)