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Joining forces with a once-respected investigative journalist, they start digging beneath the surface. They find that the deep motivation for these awful crimes is more disturbing than they ever could have imagined – and to uncover the truth, they’ll have to convince high school friends to turn against each other and In Cold Blood meets Columbine put their own lives on the line. Jeffrey Leever writes plays and novels, and is a marketing writer as well as a political and sports journalist: he writes the college football column The Scarlet Commentary. With a degree in English, he is a member of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and Pikes Peak Dark Friday Writers. He lives in Arvada, Colorado. 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Taking only his tennis game seriously, his law office is the storage room of the country club pro shop – but he does own a tie, even if it is a clip-on. But danger lurks behind the net. A wealthy County Supervisor and his wife are the parents of one of Toby’s prize tennis students, 16-year old Lynn.They’ve successfully kept her illegal adoption a secret from her and the world until now. But someone is blackmailing them, and they ask Toby for help. He agrees only because he’d do anything to protect Lynn. First he thinks Sequel to 2006’s award-winning the blackmailer is Lynn’s birth mother, but “Best First Mystery” as the bodies pile up, Toby sees that the situation is far more complicated. Lynn’s family has many more secrets than the illegal adoption, some of them deadly. Randall Hicks is a leading US adoption attorney who has litigated cases in the Supreme Court, was host of PBS’ Adoption Forum, and is a frequent Baby Crimes TV commentator. He lives in San Diego. 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