Jury Rigged — Laurie Moore

A month after solving two high profile murders, Cézanne takes a leave of absence from the Fort Worth Police Department to get her law office up and running. But bad things happen in threes. After Cézanne gets an engagement ring, her fiancé disappears. The same night she learns her wayward father died, she barely escapes a grisly death at the hands of escaped murderess Darlene Driskoll. Having left no will, Cézanne's father's estate is up for grabs and long, lost relatives are coming out of the woodwork to claim a share of the inheritance: the missing brother no one's seen or heard from in twenty years may be a fraud; a greedy widow nobody knew existed is scheming to eliminate heirs; and a squatter who insists she's Cézanne's Aunt Velda has moved into the deceased's stately home and refuses to leave. Then Deuteronomy Devilrow, a Voodoo practicing adolescent, shows up as Cézanne's deadbeat client base falls apart.