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!

Scheming twins. Copycat corpses. Can an amateur PI solve the case before it's curtains? Kate McCall hopes she can balance her passions and her PI practice. Struggling to keep both on stage, the way off Broadway performer finds herself in the deep end of a billionaire's allegedly stolen identity. But her role as a super-sleuth takes center stage when a corporate crime scene replicates her father's unsolved murder… Convinced she's found a standing ovation of a clue, she calls in her zany reinforcements. But a devious CFO, a pair of diabolical twins, and a madcap money-laundering scheme could end their run in a bloody finale. Can Kate shine a spotlight on the killer before she loses her part for good? Swollen Identity is the side-splitting second installment in the Kate McCall Crime Caper series. If you like offbeat characters, complex cases, and comic hijinks, then you'll love Rich Leder's over-the-top tale.

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.