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First Place Next Best Read Writing Contest Award for Fiction, July, 2026
Top Ten Finalist BooksShelf Writing Contest Award for Fiction, July, 2026
Lying to Iris Raines is like throwing a boomerangthe truth always comes back hard.
This gritty Texas private investigator mystery is relentless and razor-sharpwhere sabotage, cartel money, and dark family secrets collide in a dangerous game of truth and consequences.
Iris Raines doesnt scare easy. Sardonic, relentless, and backed by her St. Bernard, Festus, shes built a career digging the truth out of the dung heap of deception. But when sabotage turns lethal, Iris finds herself caught between powerful enemiesand a client who isnt telling her everything she needs to know.
South Texas restaurateur Quinten Farragut built his circus-themed dining empire on burgers, cheesy fries, and nostalgiauntil sabotage turned his brand of family fun into deadly business. When poisoned food kills a customer and sickens dozens more, private investigator Iris Raines is hired to expose the saboteur before Farraguts empire folds like a circus tent.
But following the trail means digging deep into a tangled family history, using forensic genealogy to uncover long-buried secretsand discovering that the past may hold the key to the crisis engulfing her clients business.
The deeper she digs, the clearer it gets: this isnt sabotageits corporate warfare. A killer with nothing to lose, a client with everything to hide, and a cartel moving in for the kill leave Iris with one choiceexpose the truth before it buries her.
Shes made a career exposing other peoples liesbut what happens when the truth cuts just as deep as the betrayal
Fast-paced, fearless, and full of twists, Pants on Fire delivers another high-stakes ride with private investigator Iris Raines. Written by a licensed private investigator with decades in the field, Pants on Fire is perfect for fans of Janet Evanovich, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, and Robert Crais.
Prologue
Dont lie to your PI. Its a maxim for successful livingright up there with never stiff the hitman and dont blow-dry your hair in the bathtub. Yet every day clients walk into the offices of PIs and lie just like rugs on the floor. How can they believe were going to resolve their current imbroglio without uncovering their own role in it
If youve been a PI since lunch, you know that people do not end up slogging upstream, ass-deep in a river of alligators, without having somehow gotten into the water in the first place. However much of an asshole they may be, when we join their team, they become our assholes, and we keep their secrets and do every legal thing in our power to save them. Its the job. We explain this to them ad nauseam. But they lie to us anyway.
Knowing this, my bullshit antenna is constantly scanning the environment for deception, like the spinning radars perched on the masts of warships. But this time I had no inklingnot until the first bullet hit my windshield.
Product details
ASIN : B0FPBV4G1V
Publisher : Crimes & Passion, LLC
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : 6 April 2026
Language : English
File size : 2.3 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 438 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8999482228
Page Flip : Enabled
Part of series : Iris Raines Mystery
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