A former celebrity hires Buck to prove that her ex-husband killed her executive assistant almost twenty years before. Buck must locate the corpse to unravel a web of deceptions that hides the truth.

• A former celebrity hires Buck to prove that her ex-husband, a reclusive billionaire, killed her assistant nearly twenty years before and to find the assistant’s body.

• The search takes Buck to Northern California, requires him to plan an assault on an estate in Maine, and finally to the Bahamas.

• What he finds surprises him.

• Before me sat Isidra Bloemfield, the former socialite and erstwhile celebrity superstar, whose icy hazel eyes glared at me through tortoise-shell glasses, her large mouth turned down in a frown.  “Don’t you believe me?”  she snarled, curling her shiny licorice upper lip and smoothing her hands over her leopard-skin wrap as if certain I would do her bidding.  She seemed to be used to being obeyed even though her fifteen minutes of fame had long ago faded into oblivion.

• Holding my right hand out and palm up in a conciliatory gesture, I said, “I don’t know what to believe. . . . It’s such a strange story.  You say your ex-husband killed a young woman many years ago.  He did it for you, but you only guessed that he did it after the woman disappeared.  You offer no proof.  I’m afraid I would be taking your money for no result. . . . Hold on a minute.  Let me call in one of my partners to hear this.”

• silent A. adj. 1. a. Keeping or maintaining silence; refraining from speech or utterance; speechless, mute, dumb. Also, taciturn, reticent, reserved. 

• silent partner n. U.S. a partner in a business who takes no share in the actual working of it.

• This book is based on a dream that a student had and told me about.  I thought the dream would make a great mystery and got her permission to use it as the basis of the mystery.

• This book also got a four-star review and a five-star rating on Goodreads.