When Charlotte “Charlie” Swift, former Air Force investigator turned barely-solvent Colorado Springs PI, confronts an armed woman in her office Monday morning, she knows the week is going to suck.  And when she finds out she must accept the intruder, Gigi Goldman, as her partner in Swift Investigations, she hatches a plan to get rid of the pampered, mid-fifties socialite who has none of the qualifications or abilities, Charlie’s sure, to succeed as a private investigator.

      As if having to deal with Gigi weren’t enough, Charlie must also solve a missing person’s case involving an abandoned infant, a long-ago adoption, and a client who wants to offload her grand-child on the daughter she’s never met.  Huh? And, of course, there’s a murder . . .