Bank president Roger Lime was carjacked; later the coroner Dr. Crane identified the body using dental records. Now Roger Lime's picture is shown in the Second Voice, a weekly newspaper, very much alive and freelance journalist Eddie Bourque is covering the story. Eddie's brother Henry who participated in a bank robbery, took six million dollars in gold, killed two security guards, but was caught thirty years ago writes a letter to his little brother that contains a newspaper account on the Lime story and the message “I know who's doing this”.

Everybody thought the banker jumped by car-jackers was dead and buried, until a photograph of him taken by his captors turns up. If the banker is alive, then whose ashes are buried in his grave? Reporter Eddie Bourque’s pursuit of the story takes him deep into his own family’s dark secrets. What he hears are the echoes of a forgotten crime. What he finds are bodies blocking his path. Someone is killing off his sources.

“Arsenault’s second mystery about investigative reporter Eddie Bourque, who’s now scraping out a living writing and teaching in the mill town of Lowell, Mass., is even better than his Shamus-finalist debut, SPIKED. Arsenault’s extremely likable hero…is a completely believable journalistic icon—a man who makes the right choices because he believes in the value of his work.”

—Publishers Weekly

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