THE COURIER WORE SHORTS

Literary agent Madison Holmes is brutally attacked in her condo and left for dead, days after she sent rejection letters to four would-be authors. Lieutenant-Detective Toni Damiano catches this high profile case to the chagrin of the detectives in her division.Unfazed and confident, Damiano is determined to track down the vicious assailant and close her first “lead” case. Seven hours in, she has the murder weapon — a boxed manuscript. “All this over a book?”

Sheila Kindellan-Sheehan is the author of seven mystery novels, the most recent being The Red Floor.