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The Beautiful Suspect: A Forbidden Investigator-and-Suspect Romantic Suspense with a Morally Grey Heroine
Paperback
Series: Venom & Lace, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 27 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Aisling Salazar built her Palermo fashion house on precision, silence, and secrets.
Behind the couture commissions lies an elegant financial network that moves money for women trapped inside some of Europe's most dangerous families.
Javier Duarte has spent eighteen months tracing the pattern.
The Interpol investigator has four hundred and eleven pages of evidence against Aisling, and no recommendation he can bring himself to file.
When three hidden transfers reveal that the investigation has been privately funded by the Blood Council, Javier realises Aisling was never the real target. She is the cover, and the women she protects are the prize.
To expose the corruption inside his own institution, Javier must trust the beautiful suspect who has known his identity for fourteen months.
To keep her network alive, Aisling must allow the one man capable of destroying it into the room she has shown no one.
Their alliance is precise.
Their attraction is forbidden.
And the closer they get to the truth, the harder it becomes to tell where investigation ends and devotion begins.
The Beautiful Suspect is Book One in the Venom & Lace trilogy, an elegant slow-burn romantic suspense featuring a morally grey heroine, a principled Interpol agent, mutual competence, institutional conspiracy, and a hard-earned happily ever after.
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