Just Paying the Rent (Jessie Billows Mystery)

A maintenance woman at a low-end complex in downtown Chicago, Jessie Billows has always been good at fixing things. It’s relationships that give her trouble. She usually spends quiet nights alone in her apartment—when her boisterous and somewhat potty-mouthed best friend Trish isn’t visiting—trying not to think about the love life she doesn’t have. Of course, there’s Eddie, the hot Latino shop owner Jessie calls when a problem is too big for her to handle. Their relationship has been nothing more than heavy flirting until a brief encounter that leaves Jessie wondering what it means. Then everything changes. There’s been a murder at the complex and on the scene is the sexy British Detective Devan Winters. Jessie’s boring life instantly changes to focus on the murder, a missing tenant, and a something she never expected: a love triangle.