Concealed Suspicions — Tamara Ward

What begins as a white-collar crime investigation soon becomes deadly complicated with private investigator Jade O'Reilly on the scene. Trouble arises when Benton Rowe, one of coastal North Carolina's most successful businessmen and eligible bachelors, finds a local store selling embezzled merchandise from one of his shipping companies. Benton bypasses the police to find the embezzler his own way. He hires Jade to work undercover from inside his company to solve the crime. Jade sees the case as the ideal cover to dig into Benton's possible involvement in her father's death. As Jade is swept into Benton's world of penthouse apartments and fancy yachts, her boyfriend, Keith, isn't as thrilled with Jade's assignment. Nor are the thuggish members of Benton's security team, one of whom appears as suspicious of Jade as she is of him. Will Jade get to the bottom of the embezzlement at Benton's shipping industry and find dirt on Benton before she's permanently exported? Concealed Suspicions is the third novel in the Jade O'Reilly Mystery series by bestselling mystery author Tamara Ward. The novels join multiple short stories that follow Jade on other adventures. In all, action and light romance combine with engaging characters and humor for page-turning whodunits set in the fictional coastal town of Sweetwater, NC.