"Detective-Sergeant Barry Gilbert and his partner, Detective Joe Lombardo, are back on the crime scene and this time the investigation's getting personal." "When a music mogul is found strangled to death in his apartment, there's little that would give seasoned professionals Gilbert and Lombardo reason for pause, but this is no ordinary murder victim. Glen Boyd, the sly music producer whom even Gilbert once threatened to kill after the man nearly destroyed his venerable marriage, seems to have a shopping list of enemies a mile long." From Boyd's former wife, a world-famous folk-singer, to a rock guitarist, to a notorious drug kingpin - it seems there is no one Boyd's dirty business dealings have not affected. There is one suspect Gilbert refuses to include, however, even though evidence keeps piling up. Soon it becomes a race against time for Gilbert to find the true culprit behind this heinous crime, before his family is torn apart.