"Flashes of dark poetry of Ross MacDonald." -- Chicago Tribune

Alaskan defense investigator Cecil Younger has the child custody case from hell, and a client to match.  Shrill, confrontational, and obsessed, Priscilla DeAngelo is sure her ex is conspiring with a state senator to wrest her son from her.  When she storms off to Juneau for a showdown, Younger's custody case swiftly turns into a murder.

Fired from her defense team, Younger stays with the investigation.  He's not sure what keeps him bulldogging the case - Priscilla's sister, his lost love; his regard for truth as a rare commodity; or the head injury Priscilla's ex gave him - but he won't let go until it's solved.  

But this time, the truth is less likely to set him free than to get him killed....

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