Crossing Borders

Somewhere in the shadows of America s Finest City a killer hides.Caught in a storm while sailing back from Mexico Eddie DeSilva San Diego s Portuguese-American ex-chief of police is facing a watery death when a mysterious stranger saves his life. When he reaches port DeSilva gets a chance to return the favor: Four months earlier the wife of his rescuer a victim of domestic violence hiding in a women s shelter turned up dead on her kitchen fl oor her throat slit with a kitchen knife. Her husband charged with her murder has disappeared . . . until he shows up on DeSilva s boat. Despite the overwhelming evidence of his guilt DeSilva doggedly sets out to prove his rescuer s innocence and in the process uncovers hidden aspects of the victim s life.Pauline Graham a psychologist on the board of directors of the women s shelter where the murder victim was residing is conducting her own investigation into alleged fi nancial improprieties at the non-profi t. Her interest in DeSilva a widower and former client is not entirely professional and as they resume their ill-defi ned but evolving relationship their investigations inevitably intersect in a sinister and twisted scenario in which the hunters become the hunted. Set against the colorful background of San Diego this second novel in the Eddie DeSilva series is a pageturning murder mystery with an edge.