Given the Crime — Margaret Barrett

Crime never sleeps. That's Susan Given's motto, and when she leaves her Upper East Side duplex and her two Salvadoran-born daughters to make that trip downtown, she's the very model of a modern crime-fighter - even if her designer suits and string of pearls seem more suited to the country club set. Seizing the ill-gotten gains of New York's most ruthless crime lords is all in a day's work for the head of the Asset Forfeiture Unit - and has made Susan someone to fear among the criminal elite. But some things are not part of her workaday world - like homicide. In the midst of a headline-making case, a Mob hit strikes close to home - and Susan comes face-to-face with a corpse. Suddenly, every adversary she has ever known seems out to get her. There's her insanely jealous colleague - a woman with the brains of a bimbo but the guts of a kamikaze. There's Susan's soon-to-be-ex-husband, a top psychiatrist with a full-blown case of paranoia, who is driving Susan crazy by casing her better than the CIA. And then there's the Mob, who have given her a permanent place on their 'Most Wanted' list. And just when she thought things couldn't get more complicated, she finds herself back in the arms of her summer fling, Michael Roth - who would be the perfect man if he'd ever bother to call her back.