Blood Into Wine — Blake Banner

The weather was freezing, but the case wasn't cold, it was too hot. It looked open and shut: Dr Agnes Shine had shot Dr Jose Robles eight times with a Sig Sauer Tacops p226, while they were drinking Californian wine in her living room; then she'd disappeared. But Assistant DA Costas Varufakis didn't like it and he was leaning on Deputy Inspector John Newman of the 43rd Precinct to have somebody look a bit deeper. That somebody was Detectives John Stone, and his partner Carmen Dehan.

And when they started to look, everything looked wrong: the motive was wrong, the weapon was wrong, the location was wrong â€" even Assistant DA Varufakis was wrong. But when they discover the nature of Robles' relationship with Dr Alicia Cobos, and when the forensic team discover Robles' deleted Telegram app, thing go from wrong to very, very dark.

Yet the two question on Stone's mind are: Is it all smoke and mirrors? And where is Dr Agnes Shine?