Chiquita Tate was growing her reputation as a tenacious defense attorney but her promising career came to a violent end when she was murdered. Because she dealt with so many tough characters, police had a challenge. Or was her killer closer to home?

The Harkey name was famous for pecan harvesting in Texas. So when the matriarch with a powerful grip on the family fortune went missing, investigators focused on the family tree. Turns out, the plot was more tangled than the branches of a pecan tree.