Robert E. Ross

The Ties That Bind: Murder by Proxy Robert E. Ross

Bret agrees to tackle the murder investigation of Melissa Wainwright, a young newly married woman. Melissa keels over dead while having dinner with a friend in a crowded restaurant. The investigation revolves around her second husband, Trevor Wainwright, who has been married twice before. Both wives died mysteriously and were heavily insured. Bret is commissioned by an insurance company suspicious of the other two wives deaths and who are trying to avoid a five million dollar life insurance payout. Armed with a tendency to be both skeptical and brash, he quickly discovers that much about aristocratic people is peculiar. Even more peculiar is that key people he interviews wind up dead. His investigation is further complicated by the suggestion that his new lady friend may become a target if he doesnt drop the investigation. Due to the contempt he feels for Trevor, people of his ilk, the mutual distaste the police lieutenant and Bret have