New York: Norton, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second crime novel, a South Florida noir introducing Wylie Coyote Melville, therapist and forensic consultant, who is summoned to a horrific crime scene on Christmas Eve. Five members of the Halliday family have been brutally killed and the police claim that the deaths were a murder-suicide carried out by a broken and desperate Chafin Halliday, but Wylies not so sure. As Wylie begins his own investigation with the help of his friend Bay Lettique, a poker player and sleight-of-hand artist, he discovers a web of corruption from the police to the mob - and his own life is in danger. 325 pp. ISBN: 978-0393070538.