Lauren Green never expected to be a suspect in a murder investigation on her first day at D.C.-based Lens magazine. But then again, nothing had been going well lately. Dumped by her fiance, her academic career floundering, and her living situation up in the air, she s barely holding things together. She knows she didn t kill reporter Tony Mandel. But who did? Surrounded by murder suspects including one whom she finds surprisingly intriguing Lauren tries to piece the clues together, not only about Tony Mandel s death but also about her own life.