Jeff Shelby

When a former high-school girlfriend goes missing, private investigator Noah Braddock is hired by the missing woman's mother for help in solving the case, which is complicated by the mother's ongoing hatred for the investigator.

Private eye Noah Braddock has finally found peace in his once tumultuous relationship with Detective Liz Santangelo and has called a tentative truce with his alcoholic mother, Carolina. So when lawyer Darcy Gill demands that he look into a hopeless death row case, he's more interested in catching some waves before San Diego's rare winter weather takes hold. Then Darcy plays her trump card: the man scheduled to die--convicted of killing two men in...