Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries · Box Set 1-3

Murder is a Family Business is the first in a series of humorous mysteries revolving around Lee Alvarez, a combination of Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone and Janet Evanovitch’ Stephanie Plum, and the rest of Alvarez Family. Completing the family is Lee’s “Never-Had-A-Bad-Hair-Day” aristocratic mother, Lila; computer genius brother, Richard; beloved uncle “Tio;” and her energetic orange and white kitten, Tugger. When this group is not solving murders, they run Discretionary Inquiries, a successful Silicon Valley agency that normally deals with the theft of computer software. Seemingly light and frothy on the surface, the novel explores familial love: the good, the bad and the annoying.