Kate McCall is a feisty, funny, way-off Broadway, street-smart musical actress who inherits her father's NYC PI practice and then can't keep her nose out of trouble. Meaning with the hilarious help of her oddball band of eccentric sidekicks, and with the orchestral chaos of New York City as her setting, Kate cracks the craziest crimes while concurrently investigating her father's unsolved murder. Meaning when McCall is on the case, you can count on a twisting, turning, action-packed, unputdownable, laugh-out-loud whodunnit from the first page to the last!

Her PI business just went off script. But her acting skills might catch a homicidal maniac… Kate McCall dazzles audiences on stage by night, but by day she searches for her father's killer. She seems to gain ground, until the man who pulled the trigger sends texts that prove he's one step ahead. While investigating the murderous messages, she takes on an embezzlement case from a handsome sports bar owner who might just be her top suspect… Balancing a killer's clues with her reckless sports bar crush, she enlists the help of her quirky neighbors and zany acting troupe. But if she can't close both cases, Kate's next intermission could be permanent. Will Kate's latest song-and-dance deliver justice or a fatal review? Emboozlement is the third book in the riotous Kate McCall Crime Caper series. If you like colorful characters, snappy dialogue, and laugh-out-loud humor, then you'll love Rich Leder's crazy caper.

Rich Leder's screen credits include 19 television films for CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark and feature films for Lionsgate Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, and Left Bank Films. In addition to movies, he writes the Kate McCall Crime Caper series and other funny books. He has been the lead singer in a Detroit rock band, a restaurateur, a Little League coach, an indie film director, a literacy tutor, a magazine editor, a screenwriting coach, a commercial real estate agent, a wedding guru, and a visiting artist for the University of North Carolina Film Studies Department, among other things, all of which, it turns out, was grist for the mill.