As the first book in the Murder In Memphis series, The Chartreuse Envelope introduces Memphis Police Lieutenant Julia Todd and her homicide investigation team. Wall Street meets main street in Memphis, TN. When the subprime mortgage strategies began to unwind in 2007 and the stock market experienced the first waves of economic collapse, a New York hedge fund manager hatched a desperate scheme to save her business - involving industrial sabotage, illegal stock price manipulation, and murder. Todd scrambles to prevent the planned murder of three biomedical engineers.