Love Nor Money - Catherine Sayler, Bk 3 Author:Linda Grant Catherine Sayler may be a tough San Francisco private eye, but she doesn't always feel so tough -- especially not when evidence she's gathered sends a good man to jail. She's angry at herself and at the whole business of being an investigator when the telephone rings. It's Joe Girard, an old pal who needs Catherine's help. Hi... more »s cousin, Mitch Morrison, has been killed in what the police say is a simple mugging, Joe thinks Mitch's death may be much more complex, the final episode in a life that turned sour more than twenty years ago.
Mitch was molested as a child by a man who is now an eminent superior court judge. Mitch had set out just five days before his death to unmask the judge, who had a lot to lose if the truth came out. But the judge has an alibi for the time of the killing. What was Mitch doing in the rough neighborhood where he died? Who saw him? And just what proof did he have of the judge's crimes?
Catherine knows the case will be difficult and disturbing, but she has some time on her hands, and she needs a distraction. She gets more than a distraction, however, as she probes ever deeper into the tragic tales of exploited children. And her own fourteen-year-old niece, Molly, who has come to live with her, will be put in mortal danger before Catherine discovers the final, shocking truth. Love Nor Money is a powerful novel of good and evil in which author Linda Grant confirms her reputation as one of the best of the new women crime writers and proves that justice has many variations.« less