A Question of Preference — J. Dayne Lamb

She's Teal Stewart, sorceress of the spreadsheets--the savvy CPA Diane White of the Boston Globe calls "smart and sexy." Pushing the partnership in one of the nation's finest accounting firms, she's willing to risk far more than her career in this "fast-moving tale of financial finagling and murder."

Rich, celebrated, Nancy Vandenberg has been touted as the Norman Rockwell of the '90s. But the threatening notes in her mail are anything but quaint. And when Nancy dies suddenly on Cape Cod, the facts, figures, and rumors of adultery make a hit-and-run accident look a lot like murder.

In a furious race against time, Teal tracks her old friend's killer from a Boston gallery to a Baja tourist shop, from Cape Cod to California, where a volatile mix of friendship, sex and love could turn Teal's rejuvenating spa vacation into a setting for sudden death.