"DEFT, INTELLIGENT, AND LACED WITH DROLL HUMOR...A WINNER."—John Lutz PAYBACK'S A KILLER Freddie was hired to track down Darla Hayden after she left her therapist with a pile of unpaid bills. But the therapist seems less concerned about money than murder. Darla's affair with a playboy professor had gone sour, and her graduate studies came to a screeching halt. Now, the therapist says, Darla's nursing an unhealthy grudge. Her theory is proven when Darla shows up waving a gun at a college cocktail party that Freddie happens to be attending. But when Darla's found dead in her ex-lover's office, Freddie has to play mind games with a killer...A FREDDIE O'NEAL MYSTERYFor fun, she likes a game of Keno. To relax, she'll hang out with her cats. And for excitement, nothing beats piloting a plane. But when it comes to crime—in a gambling town like Reno—Freddie O'Neal is all business.