FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE #1 BESTSELLER <i>CHILL FACTOR</i> <br> <br> <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Sandra Brown is back with a spine-tingling story of murder and betrayal -- and a homicide detective's struggle with his own rules of conduct. <br> <br> When Detective Sergeant Duncan Hatcher is summoned to the home of Judge Cato Laird in the middle of the night to investigate a fatal shooting he knows that discretion and kid-glove treatment are the key to staying in the judge's good graces and keeping his job. <br> <br> At first glance the case appears open-and-shut: Elise the judge's trophy wife interrupted a burglary in progress and killed the intruder in self-defense. But Duncan is immediately suspicious of Elise's innocent act. And further investigation quickly puts Duncan's career in jeopardy -- because he can't deny his increasing attraction to Elisa Laird even if she is a married woman a proven liar and a murder suspect. <br> <br> <i>Ricochet's</i> plot twists -- as only Sandra Brown can write them -- make this a gripping thriller in which a decent cop's worst enemy may be his own conscience...and trusting the wrong person could mean the difference between life and death.
