Patricia Delaney

A valued representative of Kauffman Real Estate and Auctioneering vanishes, and then $100,000 is take from the company safe. When old Friedrich Kauffman begins receiving threatening notes, skewered by antique hatpins, his anxious daughter Elsa turns to computer-whiz P.I. Patricia Delaney for help. But Delaney's tell-all computer databases and personal snooping quickly uncover more than the respectable Kauffmans wish to reveal, including shady business practices, bitter sibling rivalries--and murder....

When a sleazy TV program threatens to tell all about retired opera superstar Carlotta Moses - and the child she allegedly abandoned years ago - the singer's protective family engages investigator Patricia Delaney to find out who originated this whopper and buy them off. But is this tabloid tale possibly true? As Patricia plunges into a violent, heart-wrenching search for the facts, she faces an even uglier possibility. For within the mystery of Carlotta Moses's dark past lurks a chilling, infinitely more deadly secret...