I heartily recommend Debbi Mack's Identity Crisis.
A simple domestic abuse case turns deadly when the alleged abuser is killed and Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae’s client disappears. When a friend asks Sam to find Melanie Hayes, the Maryland attorney is drawn into a complex case of murder and identity theft that has her running from the Mob, breaking into a strip club and forming a shaky alliance with a private investigator to discover the truth.
A very fine first novel in the amateur PI line (the author, and the lead character, is actually a lawyer). Not literary fiction but an entertaining read.
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