The title refers to the first case for newly solo private investigator Cordelia Gray. She is summoned to investigate the apparent suicide of a college student at Cambridge.
Mystery
Wild Justice by Philip Margolin
A medically-trained torturer-slash-serial-killer, an emerging young criminal defense attorney and some Mafioso types
Airframe by Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton’s Airframe is a taut thriller about commercial jet production.