Identity Murder

Detective Kerry Grant #1

by Jean Sheldon

The increase in identity theft and online crime has police nationwide preparing for a twenty-first century showdown. One crime fighters is fictional Chicago Police Detective Kerry Grant, the computer guru of the Twenty-third District. Kerry takes her expertise undercover with the mob. She teaches the eager cyber thugs tricks and scams while checking out their involvement in online crime. Unfortunately, they catch her hacking into their system, and she realizes she taught them one too many. As she reaches for her weapon, she faces the barrel end of a gun in the hand of a man she doesn t want to love. The detective starts a romantic relationship, renews a friendship from a lifetime ago, and deals with her own demons, while she continues to chase virtual criminals firing real bullets. This is the first in the Kerry Grant series.

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 25, 2007

About the author

Jean Sheldon, born and raised in Chicago, spent the first half of her life as a fine and graphic artist. In 2004 she began another creative endeavor—writing mysteries. Her historical mystery The Woman in the Wing features women pilots (WASP) and factory workers (Rosie the Riveter) during WWII. Seven Cities of Greed involves a group of women of a 'certain age' on a quest for adventure and the mythical 'Seven Cities of Gold' in New Mexico, Jean's home for over twenty years. Mrs. Quigley's Kidnapping introduces Mattie Draper, a female detective in Chicago circa 1968, and Flowers for Her Grave is an old-fashioned whodunit in which two amateur sleuths in their early sixties, a gossip columnist and a gardener, solve a 20-year-old crime. The mystery An Uncluttered Palette is filled with art history, oil painting, forgery, and fun! She Overheard Murder, introduced the characters of the 'Nic & Nora Mystery' series—mysteries solved by lesbian amateur detectives in post-World War II Chicago. The second book of the Nic & Nora series, Puzzled by the Clues, follows both the blossoming relationship of Nic and Nora and that of Anna and Allen. Characters at the heart of the Owen gang and those on the perimeter, offer humor, wisdom, and the belief that there is always hope.

In 2015, Jean returned to her first love, and published a collection of poetry called Persistent.