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Hush Money, The Jack MacTaggart Mysteries

A Finalist for Private Eye Writers of America's Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel
A Finalist for Left Coast Crime's 2013 Rocky Award

When Hush Puppy, Pasadena socialite Sydney Everett's champion show horse, dies under suspicious circumstances, junior lawyer Jack MacTaggart is assigned to handle the insurance claim. But the case soon takes an unexpected turn, thrusting Jack into a spiraling web of blackmail and murder in which he finds himself both the prime suspect and the next likely victim.

In this acclaimed debut novel, the first in a series, former Los Angeles trial lawyer Chuck Greaves takes readers into the high-stakes worlds of big-firm litigation and professional equestrian show-jumping, where no one can be trusted, and where nothing is quite what it seems.

Chuck Greaves

CHUCK GREAVES was born in Levittown, New York. He is an honors graduate of both the University of Southern California and Boston College Law School who spent twenty-five years as a trial lawyer in Los Angeles. He has been a finalist for many of the top awards in crime fiction including the Lefty, Shamus, Macavity, and Audie Awards, the New Mexico-Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado Book Awards, and the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. He lives and writes in southwestern Colorado.

St. Martin’s Press