Strangle Hold Author:Jennifer Rowe A DEADLY AFFAIR OF THE HEART — All his life Max Tully had gone his own way. So it shouldn't have come as a shock when the brash, wisecracking star of Max's Morning Radio Show chose the occasion of his seventieth birthday to announce his engagement...to his very young, extremely seductive housekeeper, Miss Mai Tran. Bu... more »t it did. And not everyone was happy with Max's little surprise.
When someone starts writing nasty notes suggesting that sweet Mai is not as innocent as she seems, detective Verity Birdwood finds herself installed in Max's million-dollar house by the sea, discreetly questioning his prim widowed daughter, his handsome lady-killer son, his not-quite-ex third wife, and his not-always-platonic partner, all of whom view Mai as a clever little gold digger with an adding machine for a heart. But when the enigmatic beauty is found strangled to death, Birdie knows she must risk her own neck to solve the mystery of Mai--and of a killer who thinks love is a crime.« less