Finley O’Sullivan—attorney, dogged investigator, and survivor of unspeakable horrors—gets a new case that changes her life, and not for the better.
After finding her husband's killers, Finley has begun a romantic relationship with her best friend, Matthew Quinn, and started working as an investigator for primo lawyer Jack Finnegan. Jack owes a favor to mobster Raymond Johnson, whose son Ray is a suspect in the cold-case murder of Lucy Cagle, the daughter of a famous investigative reporter who was a high school senior when she was murdered 13 years earlier. Now her purse turns up, along with some cigarette butts, in an empty warehouse owned by the Johnson family. When Ray denies any connection to Lucy, Finley sets out to uncover the truth. She’s fortunate that the detective on the case is Eric Houser, with whom she has a good rapport. Finley manages to turn up a lot of information that eluded the police and a private investigator at the time. When, on top of her already packed schedule, she finds her reclusive neighbor facedown in a flowerbed, she has her rushed to the hospital. Finley has a fraught relationship with her mother, a renowned judge, but she’s shocked to learn that her father knew Lucy and is withholding information. Yet another unanswered question is what happened to Ray’s younger brother, who vanished after Lucy’s death. When Finley puts all the pieces together, the answers are more shocking than she could have imagined.
A convoluted, fast-paced mystery whose intrepid heroine faces plenty of danger.