"Ripped from the headlines," this murder mystery involves pedophile priests, AIDS and "Big Law" lawyers with a unique narrator. The horrors begin when the narrator sees a peculiar message on the law firm's monitors: Prepare to die. It is a suggestion that someone will die. And someone does: a much beloved retired partner, David St. Clair, beaten to death in his home. Then the firm's managing partner, Michael Bolden, disappears. The unnamed narrator, whose gender is also never revealed, is a former prosecutor who has in the past helped the police solve crimes. The narrator starts by...

What does a lawyer do when he can't stand his law partners any more? He teams up with his daughter and a hired killer to right some wrongs in the world. They are the odd bedfellows of the mystery series Odd Fellows, the first book of which is "The Smell of Money." Janet Kole's first novel, Suggestion of Death, was called a "page turner" by Kirkus Reviews.