Dying to Know You — John Paxton

When freelance photographer Penny Lane trips over a dead body on a beach she makes a terrible error of judgment. Now she must put matters right. Her overnight transformation from photographer to amateur private eye proves easy, but as the body count increases with frightening rapidity, tracking down the killer grows more difficult. With crime writer husband Josh offering encouragement, she finds herself at odds with the police as she rubs shoulders with villains in seedy night clubs and exotic penthouses. Bruised, battered, but unbowed, Penny Lane follows a murky trail that rakes up the past, shows her a menacing future, and leads her to an unexpected and shockingly brutal success.