Hush Money

Hired to kill a sensational story, a modern-day shamus discovers a murder

The rumors start flying almost as soon as Karen Beydon leaps out her window. The newspapers provide myriad theories as to what led this beautiful heiress to hurl herself out of a seventh-floor dorm room, suggesting everything from drug addiction and murder to depression over a love affair gone sour. The tawdry details of Karen's sad last days sell plenty of papers but do nothing to console her family. And when a Calif...