Julie Smith

Going undercover as a housekeeper in the home of a corrupt judge, who is suspected of setting up those who would expose his illegal activities, Talba Wallis locates evidence about a network of bribes and kickbacks.

When an arts patron is found shot to death, poet and detective Talba Wallis is entreated by her sister, who has been accused, to find the real killer, a case that reveals the victim to be a hated con artist who neglected her children.