The Murder that Never Was
A 16-year-old female gymnast's dream of Olympic gold is shattered when the “supplement” she has been taking turns out to be a designer performance enhancing drug (PED). Her personal trainer, Julie Forman, is furious at the people who victimized her star pupil, and goes on a personal crusade for the truth. That crusade is interrupted by a serendipitous crossing of paths between Julie and Lisa Barnes, a down-on-her-luck woman seeking a job. This chance meeting and the events that follow lands one of them six feet under and the other hiding behind one lie after another.
In a twisting tale of medical research gone awry, bodies are piling up between Chicago, New Jersey, and Vermont as a megalomaniacal genius will stop at nothing to eradicate the research error and everyone involved. Desperately trying to stay alive, the terrified Julie enlists the help of Forensic Instincts, a rogue investigative team that clandestinely operates in the gray area between legal and illegal.
Together they hope to find out who’s after her—and why. But secrets from her own past prevent her from sharing the truth, even with the FI team. With an untrustworthy client and a monstrous criminal enterprise as its adversary, Forensic Instincts is forced into unchartered territory to protect the client and save one of its own.
Note: This title should have increased reader interest due to media coverage leading up to the 2016 Olympics.