When Detective Sergeant Duncan Hatcher is summoned to the home of Judge Cato Laird in the middle of the night to investigate a fatal shooting, he knows that discretion and kid-glove treatment are the key to staying in the judge''s good graces and keeping his job.

At first glance, the case appears open-and-shut: Elise, the judge''s trophy wife, interrupted a burglary in progress and killed the intruder in self-defense. But Duncan is immediately suspicious of Elise''s innocent act. And further investigation quickly puts Duncan''s career in jeopardy -- because he can''t deny his increasing attraction to Elisa Laird, even if she is a married woman, a proven liar, and a murder suspect.

Ricochet''s plot twists -- as only Sandra Brown can write them -- make this a gripping thriller, in which a decent cop''s worst enemy may be his own conscience...and trusting the wrong person could mean the difference between life and death.