Principal Defense — Gini Hartzmark

BETWEEN MERGER AND MONEY LIES MURDER.
Katharine Millholland may be an heiress, but she works hard for her money as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer in Chicago's most aggressive firm. When Azor, the high-tech, high-profit pharmaceutical company founded by her sometime lover, Stephen Azorini, faces a takeover, Kate will do anything to stop it from happening.

But the stakes get higher when Stephen's teenage niece, Gretchen, is killed. Everyone knows that if Gretchen's shares go to the corporate raider, Stephen will lose all control, so Kate plunges into an investigation of the murder. And as family fights simmer and mob ties threaten to smother, Kate works against an impossible deadline to find Gretchen's killer. Unfortunately, the closer she gets to the answers, the closer she moves to becoming the latest victim of a corporate bloodbath....

A heart-pounding thriller of a novel, PRINCIPAL DEFENSE goes behind the stately oak doors and exclusive clubs of the legal jungle for a fascinating and gritty look at mergers and murder....