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The fifth in a great series of mysteries. Rachel is a brilliant, beautiful, crime-solving attorney with an appealing cast of confidants. These books should be far more popular.

This fifth and best of the Rachel Gold mysteries starts with a deception, ends with a surprise and in between involves our heroine in myriad plot twists surrounding a most unusual profit scheme and a most unusual murder. Rachel, spunky and vulnerable, a Jewish attorney with a nose for detection, works her way through all the puzzles most satisfyingly and even ends up close friends with one who started out as an enemy. Rachel is a delight as she peels the layers of the puzzle like a rose and at the end this reader is left with only one question: When will we see the sixth Rachel Gold book?

I've just finished this latest of Michael Kahn's books, and I eagerly await his next! His characters are so fully developed and interesting. If you like Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton, you'll thoroughly enjoy ALL of Michael Kahn's books.This one is the best so far. The premise alone is so interesting & different! Who would have thought animal by-products would be a reason for murder!