Synopses & Reviews
When real estate appraiser Alice Bonifer and her assistant, Cory Addleson, find that her next appointment has been cancelled by a sniper's bullet, her research takes a decidedly different twist. Try as they might to remain innocent bystanders, Alice, Cory and the rest of the team find they are drawn into events that extend far beyond the death of one man. Alice and her associates work on both sides of Snoqualmie Pass, Washington. When Alice arrives on a remote Kittitas County new home site with Cory they find the builder they were to meet lying dead under a blue tarp in the excavation dirt. Their natural tendency to draw conclusions from detailed research pulls them deeper and deeper into solving the puzzle. A discrepancy in a floor plan leads Alice to clues to a victim's past that involves three states, a cold case murder file and multi-million dollar real estate scams. In a violent climax that nearly costs Alice her life, the county sheriff and state police sharpshooters take out the sniper - but not before he's gotten off one last single shot.