"Reilly Heartwood, a famous country singer, is dead. His sister doesn't recognize the dead mans body. The local reverend has refused to permit burial. Reillys death is ruled a suicide. And no one has bothered to investigate.What the hell is going on here? Thats what Shep Harrington, a 32-year-old divorced and disbarred lawyer, wants to know, and can't quite answer. The deeper he probes, the more hes drawn into reconstructing the final minutes of Reillys life, the more hes compelled to confront his own past, and to ultimately learn the startling truth about his mother, Reilly, and himself.Shep comes easily to his new role of amateur sleuth. Because of his own recent experience, hes deeply distrustful of authority, having just spent three years in prison for a white collar crime he didn't commit. Yet, in digging out the particulars of Reillys demise, he is neither bitter nor uncaring, and the book manages adroitly to be an engaging whodunnit set in a small town."