The Luck of the Draw

Her cats, the occasional game of keno, and the odd solo flight in her private plane would be enough for Freddie O'Neal, if she could make a living that way. Instead, she's a private investigator hired to track down Darla Hayden. The missing woman left her therapist with a pile of unpaid bills, but the therapist is less concerned about money than murder. The patient's affair with a playboy professor had gone sour, and her graduate studies came to a screeching halt. Now, the therapist worries, Darla may be nursing an unhealthy grudge. Those instincts prove deadly accurate when Hayden shows up at a cocktail party with a gun in-hand. When Darla is later found dead in the ex-lover's office, Freddie is pulled into a maze of mind games with a killer.