Kat's Cradle - Karen Kijewski

She's a hard-boiled Sacramento P.I. with a softspot for the unlucky, the unloved, and one specialcop named Hank. Her name is Kat Colorado and inher line of business curiosity can be mre than anoccupational hazard -- it can bemurder.



She said her name was Paige Morrell and shecame to Kat Colorado hoping to untangle the twistedmystery of her past. She was atwenty-one-year-old "orphan," a poor little rich girl onthe verge of inheriting a weathy old river estate --and some very nasty surprises. But when Kat setout to solve the case, she found herself followinga thread of lies, greed and deceit that ledstraight to the corpse of a key source to Paige's past.Now the Sacramento private eye was about to learnthat in the California Delta some family secretswere better left buried . . .because uncoveringthem could be murder.