Inheritance of Shadows: Curtis Lake Mysteries (R)

When Cotton is murdered in the course of the investigation, it falls to the bull-headed investigator Curtis Lake and his wild partner Moppa to follow the dangerous threads which include the additional murder of an inexperienced detective who it turns out is also an heir to the man's estate. When the deceased man's widow is murdered, it's obvious that a systematic plot is in place to murder every benefactor of the dead man's will (and every suspect). Baffled by this pattern of people marked for death, Curtis Lake searches for a killer with a motive unlike any he's ever come up against, and one who doesn't seem to exist.