"A headlong plunge into dark places and dark minds" from the Edgar
Award-winning author of the Gideon Oliver Mysteries (Statesman
Journal).
Pete Simon's all-American life was everything he ever wanted: a good
home, a satisfying career, and a marriage still strong and loving after
nearly twenty years. But in the days following the assassination of John
F. Kennedy, everything is about to change.
It starts with the appearance of an old man at his door, ranting madly
about money, death, and forgiveness. The man is a stranger to Pete--but
not to his wife, Lily. Only later does the truth come out. The unwelcome
visitor was Lily's father, who she had claimed died during World War II
in their native France, executed by the Nazis. The next day, he truly is
dead, his savagely beaten body washed up in a nearby marsh--and Lily
disappears, leaving behind only a brief, enigmatic note asking Pete not
to look for her. Now, with a business card from an antiques dealer in
Barcelona as his only lead, Pete sets out on a twisted and perilous
journey that will carry him to places where the hideous crimes of the
Nazis remain fresh in the minds of those who cannot forget . . . or
forgive. But each door Pete opens leads him deeper into a painful and
shocking past that threatens everything he holds most dear. And suddenly
he has become more than a confused and distraught husband; the bitter
truths that he uncovers one by one in the search for Lily now make
him--and her--the targets of desperate, dangerous men and their
terrifying vengeance.
