“A fine addition to the ranks of professional sleuths.” Sue Grafton

It’s the early 1990s, long before cell phones, internet searches, and social media were nearly universal and accessible to almost everyone. Patricia Delaney, though, knows how to put burgeoning technology to use to track down information and solve cases. She is an “electronic gumshoe,” a private eye who uses her tech savvy plus her insight into the human heart to solve the thorniest of crimes.

In “Past Pretense,” at first P.I. Patricia Delaney is tempted to turn down Gigi Lafferty’s odd request to investigate her own past. She doesn’t recognize the expensive Cincinnati matron as her old pal Loretta King, once a stripper at Poppy’s Parrot, a club on the wrong side of the Ohio River. And by the time she makes the connection, Gigi has vanished, and the police are questioning Patricia about a body she found floating in the Lafferty swimming pool–the body of yet another Poppy’s Parrot alumna. It’s a deeply disturbing assignment for Patricia, but she sticks with it because Gigi/Loretta once did her the greatest of favors. With luck–and the help of her wonderful computer–she may be able to reciprocate. Only an amoral killer and her own painful past stand in the way…”