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Francis Elton, an industrial engineer, is recruited by his former wife, Alicia, to accompany her to a monastery, high in a mountain rain forest in Puerto Rico. An Arab businessman is buying the monastery property, and the Archdiocese has contracted with Alicia, an art restorer, to appraise a group of centuries-old paintings, hanging in the dining hall.When the Arab abruptly dies, while sitting in the Abbot's ornate chair with his bodyguard at his side, the Captain of Detectives uses an inconclusive autopsy report to assert "death by natural causes" and closes the case. The Detective Sergeant who led the curtailed investigation and an NCIS Special Agent involved in the case are not buying it, but because of separate constraints, neither is allowed to return to the monastery. However, as Alicia's escort, Francis can.Compelled by both a threat of arrest from the Detective Sergeant and an old debt owed to the Special Agent, Francis returns to the monastery to search for the supposed damning evidence.But when a victim officially dies of nothing, attempting to prove murder may only prove daunting.

Francis Elton, a field service engineer, arrives in Chihuahua, Mexico, in response to a desperate phone call from his former wife, Alicia, just as she was being detained at the city jail. Alicia, an American artist, is accused of shooting and killing the restoration project's director, Professor Salazar, when the two of them were alone together and locked inside Pancho Villa's Museum. Seemingly, no one, other than Alicia, has a motive, and everyone, but Alicia, has a rock-solid alibi for the time of the murder. Add to that a recently fired Colt 45 revolver, wiped clean of fingerprints, found returned to its holster in an exhibit room, not far from the Professor's lifeless body. Knowing that only Francis would believe in her innocence, Alicia presses him into a search for the real killer. But Francis has only the analytical method he uses to troubleshoot broken industrial machinery to apply to the task. And when it comes to murder south of the border, that approach may not translate so well.