I didn't realize this was book 2 in a series and even though it's a great stand-alone, I wished I had read the first one before this one. Maddie is a television reporter, a single mother to two, and has a father in prison for killing her mother. So life is a little complicated! When a woman is discovered dead in her own driveway of an apparent suicide, Maddie is called to the scene but questions everything. Who shoots themselves in the head in a driveway? Many other suspects appear: the abusive husband, the chef she had an affair with, his ex-wife, her daughter, and each has some motive. So in-between her other assignments which include a drug-sniffing dog and a ghost cat, Maddie investigates the killing and is also shocked when a woman approaches her in a grocery store claiming that it was her son, not Maddie's father who killed her mother. So lots of twists and turns and you'll have to read book #3 to find out more!