Pennsylvania State Trooper Jim Duncan responds to a call regarding a missing autistic young man. When the boy is quickly found, Jim thinks the case is closed…until the young man insists the police need to help a “sleeping blue lady” and leads them to a dead woman in an abandoned shack, clad in only her underwear.
Meanwhile, defense attorney Sally Castle is searching for a troubled young woman who wandered into her office wanting protection from an unnamed man…and disappeared before Sally could obtain any details. Sally is bothered by the incident and unnerved when she discovers that Jim’s dead body and her missing potential client are the same person.
Jim and Sally soon discover the young woman led a secret double life, with ties to the autistic boy who started it all. As Jim and Sally investigate, the case takes increasingly ominous turns, uncovering hidden money and a seamy underbelly of sex work, before turning into a desperate race to stop a killer. Can Jim and Sally solve the case in time to stop the murder of an innocent boy?
What people are saying
“A pitch-perfect procedural with excellent pacing, and crisp dialogue. It’s the relationships that had me speeding through the pages. This is one where I didn’t see the ending, and where a crime was a crime, but I sympathized with the motivation. Brava!” — Gabriel Valjan, Agatha, Anthony and Shamus-nominated author of the Shane Cleary Mysteries series
“The author knows how to tell a story that grips you from the start and never letting go until the last page has been read. This was a riveting tale with a missing young man and the murder of a young woman who had inquired about help from Sally. … The author did a great job in staging this mystery with a few strategically placed twists, where some were eliminated and some moved up a notch, especially when the author changed direction to how this story was going to play out. Overall, this was an excellent addition to the series and one of the best books thus far and I can’t wait to see where we go next with Jim and Sally and their friends.” – Dru Ann Love, Dru’s Book Musings (2017 MWA Raven Winner)
SBN-10 : 1685124402/ISBN-13 : 978-1685124403