After Daryl Gordon decides to reopen her mother, Emily Gordon's murder case after thirty years, private investigator Spenser faces very difficult and dangerous events which will test his bravery to the limit.
Boston private detective Spenser finds himself at odds with mobster Sonny Karnofsky when his investigation of the decades-old murder of Emily Gordon, gunned down during a bank heist, turns up links to the killing of Karnofsky's daughter.
