Leo Templeton is a successful partner at a prominent New Jersey law firm. He has lied to, cheated on, and stolen from his partners, his clients, his wife and his girlfriends on his way to the top. When he is found dead just before a partners' meeting to throw him out of the firm, there is no shortage of suspects. All of them, and many more, have motive and opportunity to have committed the murder, and the evidence points everywhere. As his partners discover and try to clean up the mess he left behind and maneuver to try to take his place, Det. Arnold tries to sort through Templeton's sordid...

Environmental activist Jeffrey Marx is a member of the Raritan-Delaware Watershed Commission, which was designed to control development in northwest New Jersey, but through a quirk of politics, only gets funding when it approves projects. Despite his best efforts, Marx has been unable to block a single development in his years on the Commission. When Marx collapses at a Commission meeting, the rescuers discover he was wearing a wire and the Commission members panic. Det. Arnold launches a murder investigation when tests show the organic milk Marx used for his fair trade coffee had been laced...

Golden Touch Natural Anti-Dandruff Shampoo was the best selling dandruff shampoo in the country. Unfortunately, it was also a fraud, leading to one of the largest class-action settlements ever, with a fight over the attorneys' fees to match. When the fee dispute is settled after one troublemaker is found with a bullet in his head and another is dumped in the Passaic River, no one particularly cares who was responsible except the investigating detectives, and whoever has other scores to settle. As the body count continues to pile up, Det. Arnold tries to locate the killer, solidify his...

The only witness to the drive-by shooting of a crack dealer identifies hedge fund manager Jonathan Hendricks as the killer. When Hendricks is questioned by Det. Arnold, who is investigating the murder, Hendricks denies everything - he was at home with his picture perfect wife at the time and the witness must be the same as the victim - just another crackhead. Later, Arnold and his fiancee, lawyer Melinda Devereaux, learn from country club barfly Martha Elizabeth Bennett Johnson von Brandenburg Savoy that Hendricks is the club's coke supplier and that his hedge fund is having serious problems....