A Cadger's Curse — Diane Gilbert Madsen

Working over Christmas isn't all bad. For insurance investigator DD McGil, who lost her fiancé two years ago, a routine job offers welcome distraction. But who could guess that running employee background checks at Hi-Data, a major software company in Chicago's Silicon Valley, would lead to three dead bodies, counterfeit money, and a killer on her tail?

The electrocuted corpse of a Hi-Data partner, who just happens to be her dead fiance's step-brother, is only the first nasty surprise in this deadly web of corporate treachery. Is it possible that her aunt's newfound Robert Burns discovery -- a literary treasure worth millions if authenticated -- is somehow connected?

Relying on her own tools of the trade and the preternatural fact-finding skills of her antiquarian bookseller friend Tom Joyce, DD slowly pieces together a sordid case of high tech villainy, which turns out to be shockingly linked to her fiancé's mysterious death.