Blue Smoke and Murder

✍ Scribed by Lowell, Elizabeth

• Book ID: 109555829
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 176 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780061651687

✦ Synopsis

Jill Breck was just doing her job as a river guide when she saved the life of Lane Faroe, son of two of St. Kilda Consulting's premier operators. But when a string of ominous eventsincluding a mysterious fire that kills her great-aunt and a furor in the Western art world raised by a dozen Breck family paintingsculminates in a threat to her life, Jill reluctantly calls in a favor.

Zach Balfour works part-time as a consultant for St. Kilda. His expertise is gathering and analyzing information from unlikely and often dangerous sources. Though he's got the skills to be a highly effective bodyguard, being a bullet catcher isn't his preferred way to spend time.

Protecting Jill will take him into familiar territoryamong a strange, savagely competitive bunch of collectors who'll do anything to stay at the top. But Jill is in deeper waters than she's ever known; as she soon discovers, the perils of running wild rivers are tame compared with the hidden dangers in the high-stakes game of art collecting.

From the cozy rooms of the Breck homestead cabin to the cold multimillion-dollar galleries of the Western art circuit, Zach and Jill must race against time to unmask a ruthless killer hidden in a blue smoke of money, threats, lies, and death. . . .

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