The CEO Came DOA

A DETECTIVE AGENCY WITH HEART.
PLUS MOM, FAMILY, CATS, AND A CHRISTMAS WEDDING!

It's a shocking day for the PI firm to the stars of Silicon Valley when their own star is staring up a man hanging from the center beam of his boardroom wearing nothing but his baby blue undershorts. And it being only six am, ace detective Lee Alvarez hasn't even had her coffee yet. This is way beyond her job description!

Worse, she's about to be the bride in her very own upcoming Christmas Wedding and her Navy SEAL groom is nowhere to be found. A covert mission to where?

But Lee just can't leave the young teenage girl who has now been left fatherless, and is looking to Lee to prove her father didn't commit suicide. So our star sleuth in on the case. Who has time to think about getting married or bridal gown fittings?

But don't say that to her formidable boss and mom, the elegant Lila Alvarez, who's gotten into planning every aspect of her daughter's wedding, big time. Lee doesn't have much to say about anything - and as she keeps stumbling across more dead bodies - it's just as well.

Lee soon uncovers a little known drug of lethal proportions and is facing dangers she never signed up for. But is she up to a near-death experience? Well! Does she look good in all that tulle or what?

Just in time the soon-to-be groom shows up a little worse for wear but still handsome and willing as ever. Now if she could only remember where she's put those handwritten wedding vows. What was she going to say? Hmmmm.

Author Haven again rolls out all the warm and fuzzy delights a cozy fan could wish for - in the form of a charmingly eccentric, usually squabbling, yet thoroughly loving detective family, each with his or her special talent, beginning with its matriarch. Lila possesses all the WASPy refinement of Princess Grace, in cool contrast to her spirited half-Latina daughter Lee. (her daughter will have the wedding of Lila's dreams, and that tells you so much!)

Completing the quintet is the adoring chef uncle (who is creating the wedding cake of the century for his niece) and the genius bro' who made the firm famous with his brilliant cyber-detection, and now awaiting the birth of his first child any minute, and lastly, the drop-dead gorgeous Navy SEAL who has won Lee's heart. Trust us, this series has everything but tea and cookies.

Fans of PI stories, cozy mysteries, and women sleuths will love Book Five, especially if they love sharp funny female protagonists like Sue Grafton's witty Kinsey Millhone and Janet Evanovich's lovable Stephanie Plum. Aficionados of Lisa Lutz's family series, The Spellman Files, will get a special kick out of the Alverez's.

Step right up and meet the Alvarez clan!



Genre: Cozy Mystery