Cheater (The San Diego Case Files)

ISBN: 0593548876

Author: Rose, Karen

Condition: New

A shocking murder leaves an affluent retirement community reeling in this riveting, high-stakes second installment of the San Diego Case Files, from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose.Death is not an unfamiliar visitor to Shady Oaks Retirement Village, which provides San Diego with premier elderly support from independent retiree housing to full-time hospice care. But when a residents body is found brutally stabbed and his apartment ransacked, its clear theres someone deadly in their community. Detective Katherine Kit McKittrick quickly discovers that Shady Oaks is full of skeleton-riddled closets, and most tenants prefer to keep their doors firmly closed to the SDPD.A longtime volunteer at the retirement facility, Dr. Sam Reeves honors his late grandfathers memory by playing the piano for the residents regularly. So it shouldnt be such a surprise when Kit crosses paths with him during her investigation, after shed avoided the criminal psychologist-and the emotions he evokes-for the last six months.Sams rapport within the retirement village proves vital to the case, and the pair find themselves working together once again-much to Kits dismay. But she is determined to apprehend the shadow of death lurking around Shady Oaks...and equally determined to ignore the feelings shes developing for a certain psychologist.