A View to Die For by Richard Houston
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Category: Mystery
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When Megan Carver is arrested after her fourth husband is found at the bottom of Truman Lake, the local DA and sheriff consider the case closed. Megan has a history of collecting on life insurance policies of her husbands, and the latest policy is worth a million dollars. A black-widow murder is what the media called it. All the evidence, though circumstantial, is against Megan. Her husband's business had gone broke, and their beautiful lake-front home is in foreclosure. She was rumored to be having an affair with her husband's missing partner and it looks like she killed them both to save her house. It didn't look good for Megan -not until Jacob Martin and his golden retriever came to her rescue.
Outsourced software engineer Jacob Martin is trying to make the best of a divorce and mid-life crisis when he gets a call at two o'clock Sunday morning from his mother. His sister has been arrested for murder, and his father is near death. Thus begins an adventure that takes Jake and his golden retriever from their Colorado retreat to a backwater town in the Missouri Ozarks where he gets on the wrong side of a sheriff deputy after hiring a crafty lawyer who gets Megan released on a technicality over a suicide note.
Then, just as Jake is ready to go back home, she drops a bombshell with a story straight from a Louis L'Amour novel. Megan tells Jake that her husband was murdered because of a treasure in gold coins buried by Jesse James, and that she needs Jake to prove it so she can collect on his insurance. The insurance won't pay for suicide.
The plot gets thicker and more complicated as Jake tries to figure out who killed Mike. During all the chaos of searching for clues and covering his bumbling, Jake falls for a nurse who happens to be the wife of his prime suspect. The story unfolds with several subplots while Jake doggedly tries to clear himself and his sister. The subplots include forays into the local culture with encounters with some colorful characters and another close romance with a lusty barmaid. The subplots also include more serious scenarios where Jake's father dies, Jake's mother's house is ransacked, and Mike's partner shows up tied to cement blocks at the bottom of the lake by Megan's dock. Sergeant Bennet is convinced Meg is responsible and tries to arrest her and Jake. In the end, Fred helps Jake solve the murder by finding an incriminating cell phone, and saves Jake from the killer while running for cover under a coffee table.
