Bearing Witness / Michael A. Kahn / 316 pages / St. Louis Challenge

This Rachel Gold case hits pretty close to home.  She has filed an age discrimination lawsuit on behalf of one of her mother's 63-year-old friends.  The case has "gone prehistoric."  What started out as a simple age discrimination claim has now become something far different.  [It was] "believed that Beckman Engineering had participated in a illegal bid-rigging conspiracy involving a series of federal government contracts."  Now Ruth Alpert has an opportunity to become a qui tam relator - a bounty hunter.  A potential key witness is has murdered with Rachel as witness.  The perpetrators are also murdered.  Rachel's investigations lead to the 1930's netherworld of the St. Louis Nazi movement.  Once again, Kahn has written a novel that delights, challenges, satisfies, and enrages.  His cast of characters, Rachel's friends and family enhance and enliven  a superb story.