{"product_id":"9781453513545","title":"CROSSING BORDERS: An Eddie DeSilva Mystery","description":"Somewhere in the shadows of America's Finest City, a killer hides.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eCaught in a storm while sailing back from Mexico, Eddie DeSilva, San  \u003cbr\u003eDiego's Portuguese-American ex-chief of police, is facing a watery death  \u003cbr\u003ewhen a mysterious stranger saves his life. When he reaches port, DeSilva  \u003cbr\u003egets a chance to return the favor: Four months earlier, the wife of his  \u003cbr\u003erescuer-a victim of domestic violence hiding in a women's shelter-  \u003cbr\u003eturned up dead on her kitchen fl oor, her throat slit with a kitchen knife.  \u003cbr\u003eHer husband, charged with her murder, has disappeared . . . until he  \u003cbr\u003eshows up on DeSilva's boat. Despite the overwhelming evidence of his  \u003cbr\u003eguilt, DeSilva doggedly sets out to prove his rescuer's innocence, and in  \u003cbr\u003ethe process uncovers hidden aspects of the victim's life.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003ePauline Graham, a psychologist on the board of directors of the women's  \u003cbr\u003eshelter where the murder victim was residing, is conducting her own  \u003cbr\u003einvestigation into alleged fi nancial improprieties at the non-profi t.  \u003cbr\u003eHer interest in DeSilva, a widower and former client, is not entirely  \u003cbr\u003eprofessional, and as they resume their ill-defi ned but evolving relationship,  \u003cbr\u003etheir investigations inevitably intersect in a sinister and twisted scenario in  \u003cbr\u003ewhich the hunters become the hunted. Set against the colorful background  \u003cbr\u003eof San Diego, this second novel in the Eddie DeSilva series, is a pageturning  \u003cbr\u003emurder mystery with an edge.","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140696490224,"sku":"9781453513545","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453513545_p0.jpg?v=1763850467","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453513545","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}