Splitting Heirs

Rick Hanson sends ex-Marine, ex-cop, and still-struggling sculptor McCleet into a case that's downright fishy from the start.... Graden Porcelli, the eccentric Salmon King of Oregon, has come up with a unique way of hiring Adam McCleet to investigate a murder - he makes him a beneficiary in his will. Porcelli claims that a killer will be among the people present when his videotaped last-will-and-testament is viewed. Porcelli will give Adam an equal share of an estate (that comes to a little over $15 million) if Adam can discover which heir is the guilty party. There's just one problem. Porcelli doesn't name the victim or even tell Adam when or where the crime took place. Adam has just one month to figure it all out and find the perpetrator. If he fails, he doesn't get a dime. His chances? Slim to none. The odds may be against him, but having to scrape the bottom of his checking account each month to pay his mortgage makes Adam game for almost anything. Except maybe his man-eating sister Margot. His much-married sibling has gotten wind of Adam's windfall and shows up to offer her unwanted help just in time for a real murder: an exploding golf ball puts one of the heirs six feet under...par. The death during a tournament is a stroke of evil genius that leaves just six people to share the estate. And leaves Adam to ask the classic question, cui bono? (who benefits?) Who else? The other beneficiaries.


Genre: Mystery