James Paavola introduces the first novel in his "murder in Memphis" series: "The Chartreuse Envelope: Murder In Memphis." Wall Street meets Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee. When the subprime mortgage strategies began to unwind in 2007, and the stock market experienced the first waves of economic collapse, Dr. Charleze Mitchell hatched a daring scheme to save her hedge fund - involving industrial sabotage, illegal stock price manipulation, and murder. Memphis Police Lieutenant Julia Todd matches wits with the brilliant and desperate hedge fund manager. Beginning with the appearance of a...

Memphis Police Lieutenant Julia Todd returns in the second installment in the Murder in Memphis series. She is concerned when she learns that three of her elderly aunt's high school classmates have died in their hosptial beds within the past six months. Her investigation takes her to the halls of Central High School, class of 1948, where she discovers a clique who bullied students considered to be different. Now sixty years later, the dead bodies of these bullies are piling up. Todd and her team scramble to prevent a fourth murder, then a fifth. Many have been harassed by bullies. For some,...

This is the third book in the Murder In Memphis series: Car bombs, a serious weapon of choice--matching family members' pain when a loved one dies because their health insurance company's priority is its bottom line. A powerful motive for murder. Two car bombs are detonated, then a third--two people are killed, two maimed. Memphis Police Lieutenant Julia Todd discovers that many health insurance companies have been using their version of death panels, denying life-saving medical treatment while their policyholder dies. Using one Iraq War demolitions specialist to catch another, two bombs are...