Lis W Wiehl

When a key witness goes missing in the case she is prosecuting, Mia Quinn discovers that her case is linked to two murder investigations led by Seattle homicide detective Charlie Carlson and together they must race against time to find the truth before another crime hits too close to home.

"Two little girls, frozen in black and white. One picture worth killing for Federal prosecutor Lisa Waldrens estranged father wants her to investigate a cold case from his FBI days. Lisa nearly refuses, even though a wrongly convicted man faces execution for murder. Then her father reveals a photograph: a little white girl playing alongside a little black girl at a civil rights rally in 1965 where the crime ;the shooting of a civil rights leader;took...

Outspoken radio talk show host Jim Fate dies tragically when poisonous gas fills the studio while his polarizing show, "The hand of fate," is on the air. In the ensuing panic, police evacuate downtown Portland--and the triple threat of FBI Special Agent Nicole hedges, crime reporter Cassidy Shaw, and Federal prosecutor Allison Pierce begin piecing together the madness, motive, and mystery of what just happened.--From publisher's description.