The Insistent Man - Robert L. Collins

Pierre Eggar is an insurance investigator for Alliance Insurance, which operates within Independent Worlds Alliance. He's looking into a claim over the death of one Rob Sistrom. But something about Sistrom's death in a hovercar accident doesn't quite add up.

Could it have been a freak accident? Could it have been murder? If it was murder, who killed Sistrom? His wife? His daughter? An angry stranger? There's a half-million insurance policy at stake, so Eggar has to work quickly to determine if the payout and the death are linked.