Detective Webber and his crew are assigned to the case. Without any missing person reports to go on, Webber already has his hands full professionally. To top it off, his personal life is a mess. His thirteen-year-old daughter, Emily, has just run away from home. Desperate, he asks Kate to help find her. Lucky for Kate, she does not have to look long. After Emily suddenly appears in her bedroom in the middle of the night, Kate becomes an unwilling guardian for the teenagerwithout any idea that she is about to take on her next clienta fifty-year-old corpse who is not taking death lying down.
In this funny and fast-moving Kate Williams mystery, a ghost, a skeleton, and a homes clandestine past all come together to create a perplexing case complete with one bewildering revelation after the other until the very end.
Becky Bartness is the author of four previous Kate Williams mysteries. A practicing attorney and former judge, Becky resides in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband, two children, and two dogs blessed with the dubious distinction of having survived three months of doggy boot camp without learning anything.