Swift Run

Laura DiSilverio's third novel featuring this pair of sleuths is a finalist for the Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery. Charlie is recovering from a gunshot wound, which leaves Gigi in charge of Swift Investigations for the time being. Her agency's new case walks in the door in the form of Heather-Anne Pawlusik, the woman who took Gigi's husband, Les, away from her. Heather-Anne says Les has vanished from the Costa Rican home they shared and asks the firm to find him. Gigi wants nothing to do with the request, but a paying client is hard to turn away, and Les is still the father of her children. She takes the job over Charlie's objections.

Gigi knows how Les operates, since he is an embezzler, and she manages to locate him, only to lose him again almost at once. Then a corpse surfaces, and the police begin to look at Gigi as the likely suspect. She and Charlie race to find Les and to dig into Heather-Anne's murky history, because Gigi has no interest in a prison jumpsuit. Along the way she learns things about Les, and about her own feelings toward him, that catch her off guard nearly as much as the identity of the killer.