Murder This Close

<br><b>In the wealthy Gold Coast enclave of Westport a feud between<br>mystery writers turns deadly--and retired spy Dasha Petrov must find<br>the real killer to clear her name.</b></p>Once<br>one of the most lethal secret agents in the world Dasha Petrov has<br>hunted Nazis Communists and one common murderer (in <i>The Sea<br>Glass Murders</i> the first Dasha<br>Petrov thriller). But now it's 1991 two years after that<br>unpleasantness and Dasha is living a<br>sedate life appropriate<br>to an<br>elderly widow in wealthy Westport Connecticut spoiling her<br>grandchildren and innocently flirting with two of her neighbors the<br>rival mystery novelists<br>Barnaby Jayne and Michael Aubrey.<br></p>The<br>two writers both wildly successful and many times married cordially<br>despise each other. Dasha thinks they're just two silly men with<br>big egos but the writers' feud boils over into a bizarre series of<br>attacks that starts with a blowgun dart and escalates to booby traps<br>and car bombs. And when Jayne and Aubrey both turn up dead the<br>evidence points to one suspect--Dasha herself.<br></p>Now<br>Dasha has to once again call upon her cunning mind and capacity for<br>extreme violence honed by her younger years as a Nazi-killing<br>partisan and a top-rank CIA agent. Teaming up with her old allies <br>Westport police chief Tony DeFranco and local TV reporter Tracy<br>Taggart Dasha sets out to clear her name find<br>the real killer and figure out why she was targeted--while dodging<br>jealous wives a sleazy tabloid reporter child spies and a fearsome<br>Mafia hit man leading to a tense and dramatic confrontation.<br></p>Fast-paced<br>and filled with intriguing characterization <i><b>Murder This Close</b></i><b><br></b>is a stunning murder mystery with a twisty cerebral plot and<br>plenty of hard-hitting action.<br></p>