“I wonder if, when a person kills another person--by accident or deliberation--regret and sadness, as well as a sense of revenge served well, affects the killer. Would I have ever considered or felt any of those emotions? Would I have chosen to commit an act as retribution or mistake? Does anyone have the right to deprive another human being of his or her allotted three-score and ten?”—Terry Strong
Terry Strong, PI has always solved her cases…but maybe not this time.
Terry is hired by Naydeen, to find her cousin, Wayne. Naydeen’s brother, Artie, has been murdered and she needs to tell Wayne what happened. Artie’s lover, Sean, an old friend of Terry’s, has been arrested for Artie’s murder and begs Terry to find the real killer. He says the police don’t know that Artie had a carry-on bag full of money in his closet and he’s scared silly thinking that it was money from drugs.
When Terry finds Wayne, he’s terrified and says Naydeen only hired Terry to find him so Naydeen could kill him.
Can Terry find who killed Artie? Or is Sean really guilty? Has Naydeen used Terry to find Wayne to kill him?
Things become even further tangled by Terry's growing feelings toward Wayne and the questioning of her own abilities to unravel a convoluted and confusing case of deceit, betrayal and death.
