The Pink Palace Murders

Previously

…As Isabella left the tea, the weight of the investigation pressed down on her. The web was growing, and Sofia Ramirez was its silken center. Isabella knew, with a certainty that both thrilled and terrified her, that the truth lay not in the obvious brutality of the murders, but in the intricate, hidden motivations that had driven them. And Sofia, the enigmatic woman who seemed to know so much and reveal so little, was the key. The next move, Isabella realized, had to be hers. She had to confront Sofia again, not just as a suspect, but as someone who held the missing pieces of a far grander, and far darker, design.