After taking the mystery world by storm in Jan Burke's debut novel, Goodnight, Irene, intrepid reporter and amateur sleuth Irene Kelly is back on her second case in this exciting new mystery series. Instantly winning fans and critics alike, Irene Kelly is a heroine as likable as she is clever, and as unpredictable as she is hardheaded. She is a newswoman who always gets her story and who never loses her sense of humor along the way. Irene proved she had all the right stuff when she solved a decades-old murder like a master and found love on the run with detective Frank Harriman. Now, in Sweet Dreams, Irene, things are hotter than ever - at work, with Frank, and in the murder business. Irene's latest assignment is to cover the fierce and heated rivalry between district attorney candidates Brian Henderson and Monty Montgomery. It's a politically corrupt race that causes mayhem - and murder - in the ordinarily quiet beach community of Las Piernas, California. When Irene agrees to help the teenage son of Brian Henderson scotch the latest in a string of malicious smear tactics, she has no idea that the innocent favor could very well cost her her life. Monty Montgomery is digging deeper than usual into his bag of political dirty tricks, this time using Henderson's own son to bring down his opponent. Montgomery plans to show a damning photograph suggesting that young Henderson belongs to a satanic cult with ties to the local youth center. Although Irene at first dismisses the cult as "kid stuff," soon a terrifying series of events - including murder - convinces her there is more than child's play at work: There is a cold-blooded murderer on the loose. Determined to discover whether the rash of treacherous "pranks" is connected to the embittered political race, Irene embarks upon an investigation that lands her directly in the killer's line of fire. When she ignores deadly threats as well as the desperate urgings of her detective-boyfriend to drop the case, she finds h
