Paperback: Hannah Dain, a skilled business lawyer, is on the verge of leaving her family's law firm for a better job. But her plan is derailed when a real estate deal she's put together suddenly goes bad.
Two million dollars of investors' money have disappeared. If the mistake was Hannah's, her firm is on the hook for the whole amount.
Career on the line, Hannah decides to investigate, despite a disapproving father and antagonistic older sister. Having long ago abandoned efforts to heal the family rift, Hannah now enjoys her separate existence, whether drafting a complex IPO or bicycling miles through the hot Arizona desert.
Although she exonerates the firm, a car bomb and two murders thwart the police's identification of the culprit behind the scheme.
At work on a new deal, Hannah is assisted by Cooper Smith, the firm's computer consultant and her former lover. Compelled to dig deep for key information, Hannah uncovers a greater threat all too close to home. Only be exposing long-buried family secrets can she save her reputation, her law firm - and her life.
Family Claims (2016) - a book about family - is the first book in the Pinnacle Peak series set in a fictitious town (Pinnacle Peak), somewhere in the desert north of Scottsdale, Arizona. There are four books in this series.
About the author: Thriller Award-winning author Twist Phelan is a modern nomad, a world traveller and endurance athlete, telling stories as she travels the world.
Twist has always been a storyteller. Growing up in a half-Irish family meant coming to dinner with “an interesting story to tell.” While at Stanford earning her undergraduate and law degrees, she wrote for the student paper. As a plaintiff’s trial lawyer suing middle-aged white guys who stole other people’s money, she wove evidence into compelling narratives that persuaded juries. Now, as a writer, she creates characters who enlighten, entertain, and endure long after the tale is finished. Her work has won awards, been featured in “Best Of” compilations, and been praised by Michael Connelly, Sue Grafton, Margaret Maron, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist.
She is also a peripatetic world traveler. After retiring from a successful law career, Twist bought a boat and circumnavigated the globe (with her Norwegian Forest cat) for ten years. She also earned her private pilot’s wings.
Twist continues to explore the world while combining her passion for storytelling and travel in her books, including the Finn Teller Corporate Spy mystery series. Her blog chronicles her journeys as she continues to fight crime in fiction and reign as the Queen of Living Out of a Suitcase, packing everything from cycling togs for Australia to gowns for the Italian opera in one carry-on. During the past decade, she has competed in Ironman triathlons, skate-skied in Scandinavia, team-roped in the American West, paddled outrigger canoe in Australia, rock-climbed in South America, and bicycled from the Pacific to the Atlantic Coast in less than four weeks.
Rating: 4/5
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