Who knew lending money could be deadly?

A Kate Bart Mystery

Kate's interior design business is growing. So is her sizzling hot relationship with Dutch, her partner in PI in the deceptively picturesque town of Stonington, New Jersey. But where there's a bank, there's a scam—and Stonington's banks are under siege.

The crooks' methods are nothing new—taking out fraudulent loans using a non-existent corporation as a front—but this one has a new twist. Not only are the lost millions threatening to bankrupt Stonington's savings institutions, some of the greedy bank officers who approved the loans are going belly up. As in murdered.

Hired to track the killers, Kate and Dutch chase down a meandering trail of dead-end clues through northern New Jersey. And each new bit of hard evidence comes with a price—a rising body count. With their friends under threat, Kate and Dutch race to put the pieces together. Before it's death for another victim.