Close Case: A Samantha Kincaid Mystery: 3 (Samantha Kincaid Mysteries 3)

“Absorbing…Burke confidently lays out the procedural details.” ―Publishers Weekly on Close Case . Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid likes to be where the action is: at the scene of a crime at the arrest of a suspect with the cops on the Major Crimes Team. But when street smart plugged-in reporter Percy Crenshaw is brutally murdered in the midst of pursuing a major story she knows the stakes are high…. Within days cops have a suspect; then a confession. Yet Samantha suspects that something is very wrong and her concerns keep coming back to the police. The cop who got the confession used tough tactics. The murdered reporter was romantically linked to a cops wife. And all of the cops shes concerned about are close to her live-in boyfriend Detective Chuck Forbes.. Forced to prosecute a case in which the defendant may be an innocent man Samantha must tread carefully to uncover the truth about Percys murder -- without tearing her career her home life and the city apart. But just when she thinks her job cant get any more difficult another more shocking crime comes to light...