When new evidence arises in a cold case, can Professor Hopkins refrain
from delving into a newfound world of corruption, vice, and danger?
Stanley Hopkins cannot resist the invitation from a honey-voiced US
attorney asking him to track down the source of photographs of a young
dance major abducted five years earlier from her apartment in
Clarkeston, Georgia. A journalist has stumbled across newly posted
pictures of Diana Cavendish on the Internet, apparently taken just days
before she disappeared with her boyfriend.
While Stanley deals with vexing personal problems and scrambles to
identify the owner of the website that acquired the photos, small-town
journalist James Murphy and federal prosecutor Melanie Wilkerson uncover
new evidence of the crime--and the cover-up--that ranges far beyond the
confines of the victim's quaint Georgia college town.
This second installment of the Clarkeston Chronicles presents new
challenges for Hopkins that take him far from the California base he
established in Death in Eden and introduces him to a fascinating group
of collaborators who will anchor him in small-town Georgia.
