by Cathy Ace
This book is by a BC author. It is the third in her mystery series.
The book is about a BC prof whose expertise is forensics. She arrives in Puerto Vallarta for a week holiday with her boyfriend, a retired cop. She is watching him from the condo window as he goes into a grocery store and then the flower shop next door. The next thing she knows he is hauled away by the police for murdering the owner of the flower shop.
She knows he is innocent and despite advice to stay out of it she starts to try to figure out what happened and why. She does take the advice to move from the condo to a local Tequila company/residential development. The local police chief recognizes her as he is taking online courses and has heard of her work. He asks for her assistance and she is only to eager to try to help. She is shocked to learn that her boyfriend has actually visited Mexico on several occasions in the past year, using various passports. When she contacts a mutual friend she finds out he has also been involved with CSIS. She starts to wonder what else she doesn't know about him. Her boyfriend refuses to say anything to the police.
The people at the Tequila place are quite strange, they seem like "lost boys". She finds her building was broken into and searched while she was asleep. She thinks she is making progress to help this man she thought she knew. Then, suddenly she is under arrest as an accomplice to the murder. The young eager police officer found a picture of her and her boyfriend on the Internet.
Fortunately, the Federales who come for her and her boyfriend are willing to her explanation of who committed the murder in question and others.... is is possible that the Federales were contacted by CSIS or the FBI?
It was a easy, entertaining read, a good book for a summer day.
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