The shock Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless is in for when Chester Garrity, her ex-husband, comes home to a city that he swore he'd never see again is nothing compared to Chester's own. After their divorce, he took off with his inheritance to travel the world, leaving Jane with enough seed money to open her first restaurant, which worked out well for Jane but less so for Chester. Now, he's back and penniless or as he would prefer to say, between fortunes. He's working an angle to make his next one by selling a priceless artifact recently looted from the Bagdad Museum, but that all falls through when he wakes up next to the dead body of his buyer with no memory of what happened the night before. Panicked, Chester flees the scene but eventually returns to cover his tracks only to find that the body has already been removed.

The Cruel Ever After, the newest Jane Lawless mystery from Lambda and Minnesota Book Award--winning author Ellen Hart, is filled with the intrigue and deception that make it one of the most engrossing series on shelves today.

Genre: Mystery