Family Values (A Leo Waterman Mystery)

He has also penned the Frank Corso mystery series and the stand-alone thrillers Threshold and Nameless Night. About the AuthorG.M. Ford is the author of nine other novels in the Leo Waterman series: Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?, Cast in Stone, The Bum’s Rush, Slow Burn, Last Ditch, The Deader the Better, Thicker Than Water, Chump Change, and Salvation Lake. He has been nominated for the Shamus, Anthony, and Lefty Awards, among others. He lives and writes in Seattle, Washington.

Officials believe it was a suicide attempt in the wake of a humiliating scandal. There, behind the locked doors of one of Seattle’s most exclusive gated communities, old money can afford to bury older family secrets. Leo knows Rebecca too well—and is determined to prove her innocence and clear her name. Under investigation for dereliction of duty, she’d been suspended from her job as medical examiner for King County. Most important, he wants to find out who tried to kill her.Despite the prosecuting attorney’s claims of a solid case, Leo rounds up his ragtag team of miscreants to find the truth. The investigation leads straight to The Highlands. Returning to Seattle after a business trip, retired PI Leo Waterman is shocked to find his girlfriend, Rebecca Duvall, unconscious on the bathroom floor, her house filled with gas. But for Leo, unearthing them is going to trap him in a conspiracy that is deadlier, and far more personal, than he feared.

He has been nominated for the Shamus, Anthony, and Lefty Awards, among others. Ford is the author of nine other novels in the Leo Waterman series: Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?, Cast in Stone, The Bum’s Rush, Slow Burn, Last Ditch, The Deader the Better, Thicker Than Water, Chump Change, and Salvation Lake. He has also penned the Frank Corso mystery series and the stand-alone thrillers T