A venture capitalist tumbles off a balcony during a biotechnology conference in Boston and reporter Addy McNeil gets a chance to regain her foundering career when the only suspect in the murder is her ex-boyfriend. Can she pull herself together and secure the exclusive? And is she a match for a man who needs her good will to prove his innocence.
As Addy dives into the heady world of Boston's emerging biotechnology industry of the early 1990s, she finds plenty of motive for murder as well as some truths she'd rather not know.
This book, a prequel to the Hallie Ahern series (the characters name was changed as the series switched publishers) was named one of the top ten mysteries of 2001 by The Drood Review of Mystery and
