Katwalk

Karen Kijewski. Avon Books, $6.99 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71187-1

Investigator Kat Colorado jets to Las Vegas to check on a fortune owed to her friend Charity Collins by Charity's ex-husband, Sam. Kat proves that Sam's story of losing the money at the casinos is a fraud, but before she confronts him, he dies. ``The story successfully combines stark terrors, comedy and even pathos,'' judged PW. (Sept.)

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