Karol Birchfield

April: the Arrogant Antagonist: a Tree Mcdowell Mystery Karol Birchfield

North Louisianaprivate investigator Tree McDowell expects an easy assignment when a bevy ofsenior citizens hire her to record sound levels from wild parties given bytheir obnoxious neighbor, Mark Donner. She's happy tohelp, especially after she experiences Donner's insufferablebehavior firsthand. But her job begins to interferewith her personal life when her lover, Aaron B. Abraham, CPA, takes on Donner's half brother, Carlos Navron,a suspected crook, as a client. Tree worries that Aaron B.might get in big trouble with the law, or worse, if he does business with Navron. But then Tree finds Donner dead, and her clients, who have motive andopportunity, are suspected. The police refuse to look further than the seniors,so it's up to Tree to find the real killer. Tree quickly learns that everyonewho knew the dead man, except his brother and girlfriend, wouldn't mind havinghim out of the way. Tree's list of suspects is long, but time is short. One ofthe seniors is ill with the stress .of police suspicion, so Tree makes a dealwith unlikely comrades to trap the killer. She soon finds her own lifethreatened. Will she be the next victim?