Deadly Betrayal (Angus Brodie and Mikaela Forsythe Murder Mystery Book 8)

Ghosts of the past…

An old case that resulted in Brodie leaving the Metropolitan Police, under circumstances he’s never spoken about, returns to jeopardize not only his private inquiry business, but his relationship with Mikaela Forsythe, and perhaps his life.

Ten years earlier, he refused to divulge the name of a source in a murder case and Chief Inspector Abberline threatened to have charges brought against him for withholding evidence. That case might very well have meant the promotion Abberline has long coveted—that of Commissioner of Police.

In the aftermath, the ‘source’, a woman, disappeared and Brodie’s relationship with the Chief Inspector since is adversarial at best.

Did Brodie help the woman disappear? Where has she been all these years?

Now she has returned and claims that the man she could have identified years earlier has found her and she’s afraid for her life. But is the woman all that she seems? What of her relationship with Brodie years before? What does it mean now? And, what is the reason that he’s not sharing everything he knows with Mikaela?

With a great deal at stake, Brodie is determined to find the man who is stalking the woman. However, he becomes the prime suspect when she turns up dead.

He insists that he had nothing to do with the woman’s murder. If not, who would want the woman dead. Is Brodie telling the truth? What was the woman to him? What is he hiding? Why won’t he let Mikaela help him?

With Abberline about to have him arrested, Brodie goes into hiding determined, he claims, to find the real killer.

Motive, means, and opportunity. Brodie clearly had the means and the opportunity. As for motive, is it possible he wanted to silence the woman for some reason? Was she telling the truth about being stalked? Or was there some other reason she returned after all these years? What can Mikaela believe?

With Brodie in hiding, Mikaela undertakes her own investigation, determined to prove his innocence no matter where it takes her, or how dangerous. But as the case takes her into the back streets of London as well as the private salon of a man who knew the woman, is she prepared for what she will find?

And what will it mean for their partnership in those inquiry cases, as well as their personal relationship?