Survival Instincts — Marissa Piesman

STARTING OVER IS MURDER....

Jonathan and L.A. are history. For Nina Fischman, there's nothing like that good old Manhattan malaise. She's back from the coast and moving in with Ida. Yes, Nina's coming home to Mama -- and murder.

Sure, she remembers Andy Campbell. He nearly bored her to death. Now someone has returned the compliment. The brilliant animal medical researcher is dead. His larger-than-life wife, Roz Brillstein, seems poised to become a very merry widow indeed. And Nina's own brother-in-law, the dermatologist, is a prime suspect. This calls for family intervention. Ida.

Roz claims the animal rights people had an ax to grind with Andy. And after meeting the terminally suave head of the Society for the Protection of All Small Mammals, Nina's hot on the case. So with Ida stage-managing the investigation, Nina goes undercover as a "researcher" for The New Yorker and plunges into the world of mice and men, determined to catch a rat guilty of murder....