Municipal Blondes

Computer forensics detective Deb Riley has been cut loose to continue the work of her partner, Dag Hamar. He sent her to get the code from a dead man’s tattoo. He told her she needed to crack the encryption on Simon’s thumb drive. He told her he loved her.And then he died.Now Deb finds she is in possession of something everyone wants. There’s Jordan Grant from FinCEN. There’s Simon’s wife, the Muffin Top. And there is the mysterious Committee who seem to be willing to do anything to stop Deb from cracking the encryption and revealing the drive’s contents.Including kill her.Enter the world of Deb Riley, code breaker, detective, and master of disguise, as she races into the heart of the mystery and risks discovery or worse in Seattle, Belize, and Croatia. She has Dag’s reputation to live up to.