The MC in this one jeopardizes her life, the lives of her children and her parents to get back into the old swing of hands-on investigation. In the blink of an eye, Gibson has become a prime suspect in a murder investigation–and now her job is also on the line until she proves that she was set up. If you haven’t read him before, then I am pretty sure this one is already read, being read, or on your list. But I was thoroughly surprised, I think to get the most out of this book you’ll have to walk in with no expectation.

To pay the bills she works for Pro Eye, tracking down hidden assets of criminals, and she can do this mostly from home on her laptop around the needs of her kids. Mickey Gibson is an ex-cop, single mother of two small children (who knows that those children are her first duty) who decides to risk everything (including jail and her secure job remotely tracking assets for a security/PI firm) to undertake a dangerous investigation she knows she shouldn’t.

Mickey Gibson, the single mother of two toddlers, is an ex-cop, ex-detective, and now a ProEye sleuth who is an expert in tracking down wealthy tax and credit cheats online. And to top it all off, we are constantly shown and reminded that Mickey’s two young children can’t keep their food down.

There’s at least two hundred mill in six different bank accounts, three in Chad, one in Bermuda, and two in Zurich.

Then she’d heard a crash somewhere and found Tommy sitting on the kitchen floor, covered with most of the wet dirt from a potted plant. We’re hoping Novak left so fast he couldn’t clean the place out, because our intel is that he loved the finest things in life and that place might be full of them.

And she could count those times on one finger with her father—that was the day of her graduation from the police academy. Her boss cannot back her up at all, making Gibson a primed suspect in a murder investigation, and putting her job on the line unless she can figure out who the mysterious lady was that set-up her up. It allowed her to work from home, but juggling work and single parenting with two little ones was always challenging. Gibson walked over to one section of shelves to look at a large vase placed there when she felt something on her ankles.Just like his last novel, this is another change-up for Baldacci, focusing on decades old mystery / murder combination with two strongly intelligent women batting each other in a psychological, and personal one-on-one war. The lawyers need to get injunctions filed and put concrete lids on those accounts before he can wire that money out to God knows where. She had already confirmed that there was no electricity turned on, which probably accounted for the musty smell, what with no air circulation. Gibson was five seven if she stood absolutely erect, which she had never once managed to do since having kids. She walked down hallways and into other rooms, taking video and dictating pertinent information to the extent she could find any from either the objects themselves or her own expertise.