"Both the public and the private story in Adler's second book about intrepid sergeant Fitzgerald make good reading, capturing the political scene and the passionate duplicity of those who would wield power." -- Publisher's Weekly on Immaculate Deception

When an outspoken pro-life congresswoman is found dead, there isn't enough evidence to point to the congresswoman's death as a suicide, as everyone thinks.

There is something just too perfect about the life of Frances "Frankie" McGuire-mother, Irish Catholic congresswoman from Boston. Sergeant Fiona Fitzgerald, daughter of a Senator, takes nothing at face value, especially when politics are involved. Everyone in Washington has a secret, and the senator's world turns out to be much more complicated than anyone ever knew.

A pregnancy, an estranged husband, a mistress, and the fragility of life-both wanted and unwanted-collide, leaving Fiona to sort out the consequences of the messy case. Fiona faces the issues of abortion and women's rights just as she is contemplating her pregnancy, with or without a steady man in her life.

Immaculate Deception is the sixth book in the Fiona Fitzgerald Mystery series.