Exercise is over-rated!

Eja Kane joins a dojo hoping to shape up and zone out before her wedding to Deming Swann. Instead of sweat and spiritual healing, she finds a simmering cauldron of sex, jealousy, and greed.

When a con-woman's corpse literally drops at her feet, Eja and the entire Swann clan plunge into a nasty bullion scam that imperils Deming's clients and snares even the virtuous in its grip.

An artful combination of humor, sex, and savagery make Arlene Kay's mysteries unique. The published author of INTRUSION, DIE LAUGHING, THE ABACUS PRIZE, and this year's Boston Uncommon Series (SWANN DIVE, MANTRAP, GILT TRIP, & SWANN SONGS), is a former federal executive with one of those alphabet agencies who traded the trappings of bureaucracy for the delights of murder most foul. She wisely confines her crimes to fiction.