Jane Haddam Fountain of Death

Annotation

As New Year's approaches, a former FBI investigator';the Armenian-American Poirot'resolves to find the killer of a Connecticut exercise guru (Kirkus Reviews). After twenty years in California, Frannie Jayformerly Frances Jakumbowskireturns to her home turf: New Haven, Connecticut, a university town that has become rife with crime. The depressed aerobics instructor hopes to find new life at the Fountain of Youtha workout studio whose weight trainer, Tim Bradbury, is the best in the business. But Frannie's fresh start turns sour just before New Year's, when she finds Bradbury in the bushes outside the studio, stark naked and stone dead.Former FBI investigator Gregor Demarkian comes to New Haven to assist the local police. Bradbury died of arsenic poisoninga fate no amount of exercise can stave offand any instructor and client in the studio could have killed him. Demarkian's body may not be rock hard, but his mind is sharp, and he will see to it that the next weights the killer lifts will be in the prison yard.