PROMISES IN DEATH PB B – J. D. ROBB

"Inside the paralysed shell, she struggled, she strained. She looked up into the eyes of her killer. Into the eyes of a friend. Why? Every cop gets angry when a police officer is killed. And Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no exception. Throwing every resource into solving Amarylis Coltraine s brutal murder, Eve encounters bitter opposition from Coltraine s fellow officers, who are desperate to take over the case. But when Eve receives a strange parcel containing Coltraine s badge and gun together with a note threatening the imminent arrival of her own ID, she knows the case has just got personal. Then a link to millionaire Alex Ricker, son of a criminal she had put behind bars, heats things up even further. Ricker was romantically involved with Amarylis – did she leak information to him and then have a change of heart? Eve must put herself in extreme danger to get to the truth . . ."