Hush Money: A Mystery: 1 (A Jack MacTaggart Mystery 1)

A Finalist for Private Eye Writers of Americas Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel A Finalist for Left Coast Crimes 2013 Rocky Award. When Hush Puppy Pasadena socialite Sydney Everetts champion show horse dies under suspicious circumstances junior lawyer Jack MacTaggart is assigned to handle the insurance claim. But the case soon takes an unexpected turn thrusting Jack into a spiraling web of blackmail and murder in which he finds himself both the prime suspect and the next likely victim.. In this acclaimed debut novel the first in a series former Los Angeles trial lawyer Chuck Greaves takes readers into the high-stakes worlds of big-firm litigation and professional equestrian show-jumping where no one can be trusted and where nothing is quite what it seems.