Nobody is grieving over the death of Donald Wolf, a biotechnology corporation executive whose numerous criminal activities included illegally trading industrial secrets . . . and rape. Too many people, in fact, are almost too eager to take responsibility for his murder.
At the start of a brand new year, Seattle Homicide Detective J P Beaumont has his own life-shattering problems to worry about - from the imminent death of an ex-wife to trumped-up charges of child abuse. But the justly-slain body floating in Elliott Bay is pulling Beau back to the job - leading him into a deadly morass of jealousies, personal betrayals, more corpses and corporate double-dealings . . . and closer to a killer he doesn't really want to find.
