A Trace of Murder (A Keri Locke Mystery--Book #2)

<p>In A TRACE OF MURDER (Book #2 in the Keri Locke mystery series) Keri Locke Missing Persons Detective in the Homicide division of the LAPD remains haunted by the abduction of her own daughter. Encouraged by the new lead that has landed the first in years she pursues it with all that she has determined to find her daughter and bring her back alive.</p><p>Yet Keri at the same time receives a phone call from a frantic husband a famed Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who reports that his wife has been missing for two days. A wealthy socialite with no enemies and little reason to leave her life he fears the worst has become of his wife.</p><p>Keri takes on the case assigned a new partner whom she hates as Ray still recovers in the hospital. Her investigation leads her deep into the elite Beverly Hills world of the idle rich to encounters with lonely housewives and those with shopping-addicted empty lives. Keri in over her head in this world becomes increasingly puzzled by the conflicting signals: did this woman with a stalker and a lurid secret past run away or was she abducted?</p><p>Or did something far more sinister happen?</p><p>A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense A TRACE OF MURDER is book #2 in a riveting new series—and a beloved new character—that will leave you turning pages late into the night.</p>