Elaine Viets Livres

No more pussyfooting around! Husband and wife PI team Helen Hawthorne and Phil Sagemont have barely scratched the surface of the world of show cats when a cornered kitty kidnapper's claws come out. . . .

Wealthy socialite Elizabeth Cateman Kingsley has hired Helen to find a missing John Singer Sargent painting, owned by her late father. After his death, many of Davis Cateman’s books were donated to the Flora Park library, and his daughter suspects the small watercolor — worth millions — was tucked away inside one of those dusty tomes.

Entitlement pervades high society in Chouteau County, but that's under threat when a group known as the Ghost Burglars target the wealthiest citizens. When Tom Lockridge is brutally slain during a raid, those attitudes are taken to extremes as secrets and lies threaten to erupt. Angela Richman finds herself entangled in the murder investigation.

Originally published: New York: Obsidian, 2016.

Mystery shopper and mom Josie Marcus investigates the cruel means to breed designer dogs, but things turn deadly when her source, a disgruntled pet shop employee named Edna, is murdered.

Angela Richman, Chouteau County death investigator, finds herself on a grim walk deep in the Missouri woods. The body of Terri Gibbons, the Forest High track star who went missing eight months ago, has been discovered in a muddy creek, and Angela is needed on the scene. Could a message found in Terri's shoe hold the key to catching her killer?

The funeral for wealthy Chouteau Forest resident Sterling Chaney descends into chaos when he walks into the church alive. If not him, who died in the car accident? The ensuing media storm reveals secrets of Sterling's wealth, and he is subsequently shunned. When he dies in fresh a car accident, Death Investigator Angela Richman suspects foul play.

Angela Richman, a death investigator, reluctantly takes on the case of a missing girl, Juliet LaRouche, during the holidays. As she navigates the cold, harsh winter and the reluctance of wealthy teenagers and their parents to cooperate, she uncovers deep-seated biases against the local working class. With the new detective's blunt demeanor complicating matters, Angela races against time to find Juliet before she becomes just a memory, revealing the lengths the privileged will go to protect their own.

During Jessica Gray's one-woman show she manages to upset half of Chouteau Forest and her own entourage. When she suffers a deadly poisoning on her way to the airport Angela Richman's friend, Mario Gomez, is arrested and charged with the murder. Angela is sure of Mario's innocence, so sets out on her own to solve the case.

The ultrawealthy families of Chouteau Forest may look down on a woman like death investigator Angela Richman, but they also rely on her. When a horrific car crash kills a Forest teenager, Angela is among the first on the scene. Her investigation is hardly underway, however, when she suffers a series of crippling strokes. Misdiagnosed by the resident neurologist, Dr. Gravois, and mended by gauche yet brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Jeb Travis Tritt, Angela faces a harrowing recovery. It's a drug-addled, hallucinating Angela who learns that Dr. Gravois has been murdered...and the chief suspect is the surgeon who saved her life. Angela doesn't believe it, but can she trust her instincts? Her brain trauma brings doubts that she'll ever recover her investigative skills. But she's determined to save Dr. Tritt from a death-row sentence--even if her progress is thwarted at every turn by a powerful and insular community poised to protect its own.