A happy newlywed at last, Nameless returns from his honeymoon with the idea of taking it easy. When adopted Melanie Ann Aldrich walks into his office with a case to find her real parents, Nameless thinks he can do the case in his sleep it's so easy! But is it? Nameless delves into the past, but no one there is talking, at first. When he finds disturbing information about Melanie’s father, Stephen Chehalis, information Chehalis would kill to keep secret, suddenly a routine case spirals out of control. Nameless finds himself risking his own life to protect a daughter from a vicious father with a deadly secret.

Bill Pronzini is the author of more than forty novels, including three in collaboration with his wife, the novelist Marcia Muller, and is the creator of the popular Nameless Detective series. Several of his novels, including Mourners and The Crimes of Jordan Wise, are available from Sound Library®. He lives in Northern California.