Showing Five Card Stud: A Jake Hines Mystery by Elizabeth Gunn

In this third installment of the Jake Hines mystery series, the first body is found lying in the snow near the river, almost naked and definitely dead. But its not the frigid Minnesota weather that killed him.

And, it's not just the murder that has police detective Jake Hines concerned. His girlfriend, Trudy, the crime scene expert with the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, who ought to be at the scene, is stuck in a snowdrift somewhere.

When a second body is discovered with a similar wound, a picture starts to emerge, an image etched in passion, betrayal, and fear.