Death’s Last Run
A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel
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Publisher Description
A young snowboarder is found dead on the Blackcomb Glacier, and Whistler police want to close the case as suicide. The victim’s mother, a U.S. senator, says her daughter would not, and did not, kill herself. At her request, the FBI sends in an undercover agent — Clare Vengel — to find out who might have killed Sacha and why. Dropped into a world of partying with ski bums and snow bunnies, Clare soon discovers that Sacha was involved in an LSD smuggling ring. Worse: the top cop in Whistler is in cahoots with the smugglers, and Clare’s cover is too precarious for comfort. As suspicion snowballs, can Clare solve the case before she’s buried alive?
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In Spano's engaging third Clare Vengel Undercover novel (after 2011's Death Plays Poker), FBI agent Claire poses as amateur skier Lucy Lipton in Whistler, British Columbia, while investigating the suspicious death of New York Senator Martha Westlake's daughter, Alexandra "Sacha" Westlake. Though local authorities consider the death a bizarre suicide, few believe the vibrant 23-year-old had reason to take her own life. Since the senator is running for the Republican nomination to the U.S. presidency, Canadian and American officials have hastily pulled together a joint task force, and Clare is their star player. As Lucy, Clare moves in with Sacha's best friend, Jana Riley, and immediately meets a number of eccentric 20- and 30-something suspects, most of whom are involved in peddling a potent new form of LSD across the border. Spano weaves what could have been a far-fetched plot into a believable tale of estrangement, love, lust, greed, power, and revenge.
