Good Bad Woman — Elizabeth Woodcraft

Frankie Richmond knows trouble. A London barrister whose career is teetering on the brink of ruin and whose search for the right woman is about as successful as the quest for a perfect pair of jeans, "Trouble" could be Frankie's middle name. But when she agrees to a routine appearance at a magistrate's court as a favor for a friend and former lover, she never expects the kind of trouble that finds her accused of murder.
Or the kind of trouble that wears a sexy red sheath and croons the torch songs Frankie can't resist. What to do first? Figure out who may have framed her for a murder she didn't commit, or lose herself in the smoky voice--and silky arms--of the lounge singer as mysterious as Frankie's predicament? Solving the case herself is a challenge Frankie is willing to tackle head-on, especially since the police are only too happy to pin the crime on a working-class lesbian barrister. But each time Frankie gets close to clearing her name, she gets even closer to some unpleasant truths about the people she thought she knew--and the one woman she wanted to get to know much better...