Roger and Geoffrey knew each other for years. Roger was the intelligent, good-looking, successful one and Geoffrey was the one everyone picked on. When years of suppressed anger surfaced, Geoffrey took revenge by sleeping with Roger’s wife. Was this enough for all those put-downs? When Roger turned up dead the police certainly didn’t think so.

The new crime thriller in the ever-funny and charming Stanley Hastings mystery series, featuring the only detective in New York City who doesn't carry a gun. Stanley Hastings finally felt like a real PI, staking out a New Jersey motel to get evidence on a woman's cheating husband. It should have been a piece of cake. Only the husband wasn't cheating, someone killed him, and the cops are trying to pin the murder on the man apprehended at the scene, who just happens to be Stanley. To clear his name, Stanley will wind up jumping bail, impersonating a police officer, staking out a mob boss, and appropriating a murder weapon from a sassy Jersey Girl who keeps trying to distract him by ripping her clothes off. And that's just for starters . . .

This is a story of a man's journey, searching for the answers to his sons' questions. As the man learns the truth-how one person was able to do an unspeakable thing to make herself feel better on the pain and humiliation of an innocent man-he is haunted in his dreams by his past. The only way he can find peace is for the people that caused the pain and humiliation to reveal the truth and answer his sons' questions. The consequences of that decision ends in reality.