attorney launches her BMW off a highway overpass, killing herself and three others.Įnter forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett, hired by the SFPD to cut open not the victim’s body, but the victim s life. A superstar 49er jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. But there are more corpses including a near miss for Evan herself to come before the bad guys are finally brought to book.Īn ongoing string of high profile and very public murder suicides has San Francisco even more rattled than a string of recent earthquakes: A flamboyant fashion designer burns to death, clutching the body of his murdered lover. The plot has more twists, thrills and spills than a white knuckle ride, and is complicated by the confused emotions of the main parties involved: Jesse feels a survivor’s guilt Adam resents the fact that Jesse is alive while his brother died. So maybe that hit and run wasn’t an accident at all? Then the policeman investigating is killed, and Adam and Jesse both come under suspicion. She quickly uncovers evidence that Brand was embezzling funds, and that Adam’s brother knew all about it. Brand had been a high flier in Mako Technologies, a cyber security firm, and this is where Evan starts looking. Since the accident, Brand has been avoiding justice overseas but if he’s back, Evan and Jesse are determined to get him, helped by the dead boy’s brother Adam. Brand is the hit and run driver who sentenced Evan’s lover Jesse to life in a wheelchair, and killed his best friend. Evan Delaney, novelist and legal go fer, is dressed as Diana Ross in order to crash a fancy dress party and serve a summons, when she hears that Franklin Brand is back in town.
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