Gloria Jamison is found dead in her apartment, her throat crushed, her hands folded reverentially across her chest.
When the son of his late partner becomes a suspect, Wendell Phillips, a semi-retired New York attorney sets out to find the true murderer. The trail leads from Manhattan to Denver, from New Orleans to central Texas and back. Kelly Robinson, a "baby lawyer" fresh out of law school, and Grace, Wendell's PI, with shoe leather and digital sleuthing, identify the real killer, and a string of victims spanning ten years. But the real killer has been waiting for them! In the psychological chess game that follows, the first pawn is moved in the mountains of Colorado and the checkmate plays out in a New York courtroom.
And in solving the mystery of Gloria Jamison's strange demise, Wendell and Kelly, both scarred by past tragedies, begin to solve the mystery of their own healing.
