The Ex

As white-capped waves crash against the shoreline in the affluent beach city of Laguna Niguel, a woman lies dead . . .Murdered by an unknown killer.Mike Harris, the woman's neighbor, and also her daily walking partner, discovers her lifeless body. His first reaction is to run, but a moment later, he performs his civic duty by checking for signs of life.Recently retired homicide detective Alex Bey, now working as a private detective, is asked by the woman's husband to look into the murder. Alex reluctantly agrees . . . simply because the woman is the former detective's ex-wife.During the course of the investigation, Alex learns more than he could ever have fathomed. Symptomatic of most murder cases, he is hit with a barrage of lies, phony smiles, and discredited characters.Alex's present wife Cora Bey, and her business partner Vera Brown, are drawn into the case by way of women's intuition . . . along with the fact that they both assume a detective-or an ex-detective-cannot adequately conduct a murder investigation when the victim is someone once near and dear to the detective's heart.The Ex delves deep into weighty egos, unrealistic pride, love, sex, and above all . . . one of many reasons the mentally unstable choose to commit crimes.