Textual Relations

Private detective Mimi Capurro's best friend and colleague, Jackie, storms into the office in a full mom-meltdown. Confiscating her fourteen-year-old daughter's laptop and phone seemed like a standard teenage drama. A secret online crush. Some flirty texts. Nothing a good password hack and a serious conversation can't fix. Except Charles cracks the password — and what he finds isn't a boy from Wisconsin. It's a predator. And he lives less than half a mile away. Before Mimi can untangle the digital nightmare, the man turns up dead in his bedroom. Jackie's fingerprints are all over the crime scene, and a teenage girl has gone missing. Suddenly a bad week just became a murder investigation, and her best friend is the prime suspect. With forty-eight hours before Jackie faces charges, Mimi is juggling a nosy neighbor with secrets, a dead pedophile nobody mourns, a candle company that smells like a cover-up, and a gorgeous homicide detective who keeps showing up at inconvenient moments, like when she finally has a man in her bedroom. Some cases are personal. This one is furiously personal. And Mimi's Doberman Lola? About to have the best day of her life. Textual Relations is the second book in the Gotcha Detective Agency series — because some crimes can't wait for the perfect moment, and neither can love.