Detailed item info | Synopsis | Private detective Matthew Hope takes a case investigating the whereabouts of a missing husband.
| | Size | | Length: | 304 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in. | | Width: | 6.8 in. | | Thickness: | 1.2 in. | | Weight: | 17.6 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | Jill Lawton wants Matthew Hope to find her husband, Jack. Her tale is commonplace: a middle-aged husband goes north to look for work, finds another woman, doesn't come back. The embittered wife wants out - with alimony. It's the kind of manhunt Hope's associates Chambers, Kiley, & Lamb can normally handle with their private eyes closed. But that is before a corpse turns up on a Calusa beach with Jack Lawton's ID in his pocket. Hope should have remembered the first axiom of being a criminal lawyer: the client always hides something...such as the kinky, sizzling sex life this Jack and Jill preferred. Instead Hope asks for help from cops up north where Jack Lawton was last seen, and starts snooping around the Sunshine State himself. Here some slimy critters hide in the deep eddies and local watering holes. And here Hope, shaky from the gunshot wounds he barely survived, suddenly has second thoughts about tangling with them.
When Jill Callahan hires Florida attorney Matthew Hope to locate her missing husband, she has two things on her mind: divorce and plenty of alimony. Unfortunately, Hope finds out that Jack Callahan is dead. Or is he? If he is still alive, then who is the stiff in Jack's bed? And why are some Northern cops so very interested in poor old Jack's disappearance? As Hope delves deeper, he finds this case has a little of everything. In fact, it could be the best case of his career--and quite possibly, his last.
| | Industry reviews | "...a wondrously tricky plot..."
New York Times Book Review - Marilyn Stasio (03/22/1998)
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