Nicole Graves 04: The Ransom

As a newly minted private investigator, Nicole Graves expects to take on legal cases for corporate clients. But when her client's son, Brad Rexton, is killed trying to protect his wife, Ashley, from a home invasion-turned-kidnapping, the firm is hired to investigate what will become Nicole's most dangerous case yet. The story is set in Los Angeles: the city itself, its beautiful and perilous canyons, as well as Hollywood, its fading glamour
Not long after Nicole gets this case, someone dear to her is kidnapped in the same manner as Ashley. Nicole is willing to hand over the money but finds it's not so easy. The kidnappers have an uncanny ability to track her every move, and they suspect a trap. When their most terrifying threat is delivered to her door, Nicole is faced with a dreadful choice: Should she count on the police or risk going it alone?
"Nicole Graves is a charming and straight-shooting heroine" - Foreword Reviews
"Boyarsky's weightless complications expertly combine menace with bling, making the heroine's adventures both nightmarish and dreamy." - Kirkus Reviews
"Nicole Graves is the best fictional sleuth to come down the pike since Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone." - Laura Levine, author of the popular Jaine Austen Mysteriesbr>
The Nicole Graves Mysteries
1. The Swap
2. The Bequest
3. Liar Liar
4. The Ransom
All Nicole Graves Mysteries can be read as stand-alone novels.
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