The Swap: A Nicole Graves Mystery (Nicole Graves Mysteries Book 1)

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He delivered fifty thousand dollars ransom in cash—unmarked bills of assorted denominations—as demanded. Her most recent mystery, The Entitled, fifth in the series, received praise from Foreword Reviews for "vibrant street scenes, swift pacing, and Nicole's steely nerve. Soon after, the state of California informed her that anything left after taxes would go to the state’s Victim’s Restitution Fund, which is what often happens with criminal proceeds.

Did you tell the police that Ashley and Victoria Reina had been friends and that you used to work for Victoria? But things get complicated after someone associated with another kidnapping is killed, one of the other victims goes missing, the police get involved, and Nicole’s money drop is not picked up… twice! Her debut novel The Swap-book one of the Nicole Graves Mysteries-won the prestigious Eric Hoffer award for Best Micro Press Book of the Year. Meanwhile, a long-delayed and undesired inheritance is finally deposited into Nicole’s bank account.

When their most terrifying threat is delivered to her door, Nicole is faced with a dreadful choice: Can she count on the police or must she risk going it alone? Or if she really was behind the whole thing, wouldn’t her husband’s death have motivated her to disappear? As she walked farther into the room, she caught sight of a huge bloodstain on the white carpet near the fireplace.

She’d hung a lot of big abstract paintings on the walls—not a Kandinski or a de Kooning— He paused to gesture at the art on his walls. As Nicole walked over to the desk, she noticed it was completely clean except for a silver-toned telephone with a lot of buttons. And Foreword Reviews has fallen for the "tough and likable protagonist Nicole Graves" while Midwest Book Review praises the "exquisite tension" throughout the story. As a newly licensed PI, Nicole had done work for Rexton Enterprises when they were trying to collect a settlement from another business that had hidden its assets.Travel to London and retrieve Abigail Fletcher, a 17-year-old in a study abroad program at the prestigious King's College in London. But her lies and mysterious comings and goings lead Nicole to suspect that she’s not what she seems.

Nancy's books have been compared to Mary Higgins Clark and are praised for contributing to the "women-driven mystery field with panache" (Foreword Reviews) as well as for their "hold-onto-the-bar roller coaster" plots (RT Book Reviews). A. with its peculiar mix of balmy weather, the celebrity-crazed media, and a corrupt power structure hidden by the veneer of glamour and wealth.She has strong ties to the community and believes strongly in giving back to the community that has given so much to her. Kirkus Reviews Nicole Graves, still reeling from her London kidnapping in The Swap, is struggling to balance work at L. The businessman mistrusts his daughter-in-law sufficiently to think she may have been involved in her own abduction. The Ransom is a well written and suspenseful kidnapping thriller with a little bit of romance threw in it.