The Billionaire Professor — Sky Twain

When a billionaire is killed on the Silicon Valley campus where he teaches. Rookie Detective Lara Hunt grabs the case. Her sometime lover, Nick Peel, a cunning local lawyer and wag, offers tips on the victim's high tech circle. The death sure looks like an accident, except, who did it? And some speculative forensics suggest murder. But who would want to kill the very rich prof, who played Santa Claus for startups? Well, how about his hyper-ambitious students, fractious wives and lovers, insecure children, frustrated entrepreneurs, envious colleagues, the Russian mafyia -- Meanwhile, police politics in this high tech capital of the world could end Lara's career, and so could a misstep in this insanely high profile investigation. And then there's her rogue lover, Nick. Author's website: SkyTwain.com