Nimbly catching the ball, she said, “Larkin’s probably already regretting not burying those funds deeper, offshoring them in the Cook Islands or laundering them beyond our reach. There was a large dining room fully, if incompatibly, outfitted with Baroque pieces and a Chippendale sideboard. Mickey Gibson is an ex-cop, single mother of two small children (who knows that those children are her first duty) who decides to risk everything (including jail and her secure job remotely tracking assets for a security/PI firm) to undertake a dangerous investigation she knows she shouldn’t. But I was thoroughly surprised, I think to get the most out of this book you’ll have to walk in with no expectation. This year Baldacci is branching out again with another new character – Mickey Gibson – a former cop and detective, current global investigator, and more importantly, a single mom with two young children.

Simply Lies” starts off with Gibson juggling her remote investigation work with ProEye, a global investigation firm that focuses on hunting down wealthy individuals making illegal income and cheating on their taxes, and being a stay-at-home mom. She still carried stubborn pounds of baby weight in her hips, buttocks, and belly, and they might be permanent for all she knew. Before long, Gibson is locked in a battle of wits with a brilliant woman with no name, a hidden past, and unknown motives—whose end game is as mysterious as it is deadly. Our clients have documented liens on all of the man’s assets and have filed blanket legal papers allowing access to all his properties. Both Mickey and Clarisse are interesting characters and I enjoyed following their trajectories, though I would question a few of Mickey’s choices.Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense.

Gibson is conned into investigating the death of a known criminal and once she is in, there is no backing out. David Baldacci is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America. Later, with the kids down for brief naps, Gibson grabbed a quick shower, unlocked the door of her home office, and hurried inside. And everything in Mickey Gibson’s suburban, single-mom life was about to get blown straight to hell. I am pretty sure that there are many readers who can relate to Gibson’s situation and I found it a refreshing part of the storylines and related drama.

He’d told her that he wanted a large family, but as soon as one baby was out of the oven he had been a changed man, chafing at not being able to go out with his friends, or having his weekends “ruined” by the daddy do list. Mickey Gibson is a single mom who works from home conducting investigative surveillance on alleged criminals.

Revealed was a sprawling old manor house that looked as though it hadn’t changed a jot since it had been built. A woman she doesn't know, ostensibly from ProEye, asks her to do some fieldwork: inventory the contents of an old mansion. The characters are quite well developed, but they are not exciting, and there were several times that it got mundane to the point of putting the book down for good. She had not let her mother see her unlock the combo safe located at the top of her bedroom closet or put the gun in her belt clip.When the counsel for the government had pointed out that that was not a defense to paying no tax at all on his actual taxable income, the billionaire hadn’t told him to fuck off. For the last couple of years, David Baldacci has been producing two books a year, and focusing most of his attention on his recent series characters of Amos Decker (Memory Man), Will Robie, Atlee Pine, and Aloysius Archer. The MC in this one jeopardizes her life, the lives of her children and her parents to get back into the old swing of hands-on investigation. That is, until she arrives at the mansion to discover a dead body in a secret room–and that nothing is as it seems.