Eleventh Hour

Father Michael Joseph is shot dead inside his San Francisco church, and the loss lands hard on the FBI. The priest was the twin brother of agent Dane Carver, so when Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, partners at work and married to each other, hear the news, they treat the case as more than routine. They want answers for a colleague, and the investigation soon proves stranger than they expected.

The only person who saw the killing is Nicola Jones, known as Nick, a homeless woman who now lives in fear. The murder is not the only thing frightening her. She is already running from people in her own past, and they are getting nearer. Her testimony could break the case, but staying alive long enough to give it is another matter.

The trail moves south from San Francisco to Los Angeles and Premiere Studios, where a new hit television show about murder is in production. What links a priest's death in a northern church to a studio built on entertainment is the question that drives the story forward.

Eleventh Hour is a suspense novel in Catherine Coulter's FBI series, built around the Sherlock and Savich partnership, with a personal stake for the agents and a witness who cannot afford to be found.