When Spenser's client, Dennis Doherty, Doherty's wife, and her lover are found dead, Spenser tries to right the wrongs by avenging his client's death.

Heidi Bradshaw, a gold digger recently separated from her latest husband, recruits Boston P.I. Spenser to be a stand-in husband and protector at her daughter's wedding; when Spenser's nemesis Rugar--the Gray Man--arrives at what should be a joyous occasion, Spenser realizes something is amiss.

"Spenser takes up a seemingly open and closed cold case at the behest of a street-wise 16 year old girl, who believes her mother's murderers went free. As Spenser digs deeper into the mystery, he finds a much more dangerous and complex mystery than he bargained for"--

When Susan's ex-husband, Brad, appears after a decades-long absence, nearly broke and the object of a sexual-harassment suit, Spenser reluctantly agrees to help. As he investigates the circumstances surrounding the suit, he discovers that fund-raiser Brad is swimming in very deep water: mobsters, who were using his fund-raising campaigns to launder money, have discovered he was cooking the already cooked books and aren't at all pleased. The deeper...