Fifteen Minutes of Infamy: An Eleanor Garrett Mystery: 4

Eleanor Garrett has already buried a husband and son. She won't bury the truth.She wanted to find a new job. Grieve quietly. Rebuild what's left of her life with Darryl, her new partner, and his fierce, complicated daughter, Alex.Instead, a stage light crushes a director during a theatre rehearsal-and the police are convinced they already know who did it.Alex had motive. She'd confronted the victim minutes before he died. And Eleanor, who watched it happen, can't shake one terrible thought: What if Alex actually did it?Eleanor barely knows this girl. But she knows what it's like to be blamed for a tragedy you didn't cause-to carry guilt that isn't yours, to watch people decide you're guilty before you can speak.So she digs into the case. Even though moving on feels like betraying the dead, staying feels like tempting fate to take everything from her again.That's when Eleanor sees it: the artificial precision of the "accident." The timing too perfect. The details that don't fit.Someone planned this. And they're counting on everyone looking at Alex.But proving Alex innocent means Eleanor can't walk away. And staying means risking the kind of loss she's barely survived once before.Because the only thing more terrifying than losing someone else is discovering she still has something left to lose.