Jessica has it all: handsome husband, wealth, good job at the top of her field, and youth. It is not enough, and her job will probably end soon. She is bored with her life and her marriage and Andrew, her husband, has settled into a respectable and well-furnished rut. She wants more. She needs more.

Harry Lipkin is eighty-seven years old and will soon be eighty-eight. He does not need to work and he does not have a wife or children, but he enjoys being a private eye. He gets the small cases, the ones the police do not get. This time around, Harry is going to find out which one of Mrs. Weinberger’s household staff keeps taking her things.

Texas Range Caitlin Strong has a new job. She’s working a desk at the Ranger office because of a high school shoot-out where an innocent boy will never play football again. Caitlin had a choice. Shoot the boy in the shoulder and get the one with the machine gun or let more people be shot.

This new legal mystery/thriller will stop readers in their tracks. There have been many ‘thrill rides’ written regarding the immense power of politics in Washington, D.C., and a great many are alike. But with Discretion, the action begins from the word ‘go’ and does not stop until the very last sentence has been uttered.

Katya “Katey” Kontent (that’s Kon-TENT as in content as a purring cat) comes from a Russian family and seems to be the only one of her family to have made it to the Great Depression intact. She has a partner in crime, one Evelyn “Eve” Ross, who is blonde perfection from the Midwest running away from her wealthy family and their expectations (marriage, kids, farm) and determined to make it on her own.

This is truly an amazing book that will haunt you for many days and nights to come…beginning with the actual definition of the title. “Full Body Burden” is defined as the amount of radioactive material present in a human body, which acts as an internal and ongoing source of radiation.