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"J" is for Jaffe: Wendell Jaffe, dead these past five years. Or so it seemed until his former insurance agent spotted him in the bar of a dusty little resort halfway between Cabo San Lucas and La Paz. As Kinsey pushes deeper into the mystery surrounding Wendell Jaffe's pseudocide, she explores her own past, discovering that in family matters as in crime, sometimes it's better to reserve judgment."

Investigating a socialite's insurance claim for a champion show horse's sudden death, elite Pasadena law firm newcomer Jack MacTaggart uncovers links to an old blackmail scheme before he is falsely accused of murder.

A tale of murder, sorcery, and criminal justice in turn-of-the-century Chicago, the true story of a mysterious Bohemian fortune teller named Herman Billik, charged in 1907 with murdering a half-dozen people by slowly poisoning them with arsenic.