Karen J. Kijewski crea narrazioni avvincenti che approfondiscono gli aspetti più oscuri della natura umana. La sua scrittura si distingue per dialoghi brillanti e misteri intricati che tengono i lettori coinvolti fino alla fine. Attraverso il suo lavoro, Kijewski esplora spesso complessi dilemmi morali, riflettendo le ambiguità del mondo reale. La sua prosa è precisa ed evocativa, offrendo ai lettori una profonda visione della psicologia dei personaggi.
A Sacramento attorney commits suicide--and Kat finds a video suggested he'd been blackmailed. But as Kat investigates, she discovers that the extortionist has a charitable streak, ordering victims to make their payments to an organization that helps handicapped kids. See centerpiece feature.
She's a hard-boiled Sacramento P.I. with a soft spot for the unlucky, the unloved, and one special cop named Hank. Her name is Kat Colorado, and in her business curiosity can be more than an occupational hazard--it can be murder.Kat Colorado knows the dangers of letting a case get too big a piece of your soul. But some cases don't give you a choice, like the death of twenty-two-year-old Courtney Dillard. Kat found her battered body on a dark Sacramento freeway, an apparent hit-and-run victim. Courtney's mother is convinced her death was no accident, and hires Kat to find the truth. As sweet and good-hearted as she was, Courtney had no shortage of enemies, Kat learns. And they make no secret of their belief in blood vengeance.Kat's also looking for the truth about her relationship with Hank, who's wrestling with his own soul-eating case. A serial killer is stalking the Vegas Strip, and Hank's investigation is taking him over the line. His obsession could cost him both Kat and his career--while Kat's could cost her her life.
She's a hard-boiled Sacramento P.I. with a soft spot for the unlucky, the unloved, and one special cop named Hank. Her name is Kat Colorado, and in her business curiosity can be more than an occupational hazard -- it can be murder. It's hard to tell where the truth ends and the lies begin when Kat is hired to look into the death of a young woman in a historic California gold-country resort town. The police have closed the books on Deidre Durkin's murder; it was a tragic robbery-homicide. But could a clever murderer have created the illusion of a parking-lot theft gone bad? Was Deidre's loving husband as perfect as he seemed? The more Kat finds out about the victim, the less she's convinced that Deidre was the woman she appeared to be. But then Kat, in her undercover role as a bartender, isn't the person she pretends to be, either. And as Kat discovers, in this little town, even life and death are an illusion.
The Christmas season doesn't look too festive for PI Kat Colorado when prominent Sacramento lawyer James Randolph commits suicide while under her surveillance. Moved by his death and by his young widow's inconsolable grief, Kat determines to find the key to his suicide. But Randoloph - the victim of a vicious blackmailer - is just the tip of a dangerous iceberg. And when a sleazy journalist gets hold of the story, Kat finds a number of very scared people coming forward. By chasing leads, turning on the charm and twisting a few arms, Kat identifies a web of deceit of frightening proportions. And as she gets closer to her quarry, the blackmailer turns up the heat, resorting to violence that threatens Kat, her friends, her family and everything she holds dear...
Kat, une détective privée (mais pas d'esprit) enquête à Las Vegas chez les patrons de casino, les gens du bâtiment, les conseillers municipaux. Pires que la Mafia, ces mecs !
