Golden Eggs and Other Deadly Things (Carrie Carlin - Book 4)

Then Eve shows up on Carrie's Norwood, New Jersey doorstep with a chunk of Carrie's dad's winnings concealed in a money belt, payoff loot for an extortionist. She begs Carrie to help her deliver the money. Outraged, Carrie adamantly refuses. The last thing she needs is to be dragged into a potentially dangerous shady deal, particularly when Eve won't tell her what the deal is. She has a busy life, she explains—a client roster that includes ADD and ADHD kids, overeater groups, even a multiple personality, plus an ex-husband who compares her to Calamity Jane, two children, four animals and a boyfriend who's a homicide cop.

Angry and desperate, Eve appropriates Carrie's car and disappears, leading Carrie on a wild goose chase all over Manhattan. When the extortionist ends up with a bullet in his brain and his head in a bowl of soup, and Carrie discovers Eve trying to climb out a brownstone window, Carrie ends up in the proverbial soup right along with stepmom. Then Eve is arrested, a stepbrother Carrie didn't know existed shows up, and strangers connected to Eve's past begin getting murdered. When her dad arrives determined to save his lady, Carrie's fight-or-flight response goes into orbit. Finding the killer becomes an all-consuming priority as she fights to preserve her family. Her chance comes when the killer makes a disastrous mistake....