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Henry Waylon spent ten years on death row, before finally being executed. A day after his death by lethal injection, DNA evidence shows that he was innocent of the crime for which he'd been convicted. The judge who sentenced him to die receives a threatening note, and hires Al Pennyback to find out who is threatening him. As Al digs into the background of the crime, he finds that there's more to the case than meets the eye, and, when people associated with it start to die, he finds himself in a race against time to catch a ruthless killer.

Jackson Meredith wants to hire Al to find his wife, Caroline. But, Caroline's father has identified his daughter's body after a one-car crash. Suspecting there is more to the case than meets the eye, and bored because he's between cases, Al takes the case, only to find himself investigating a murder.

Gabriel Birdsong is found in the basement of his house, with his throat cut. The killer left no evidence, no weapon, and the police can't determine the motive for the killing. What they do know is that his granddaughter, Lena, who has been living with him since the death of her parents, is missing. Her aunt hires Al Pennyback to find her, but offers no clues to where she might be, or with whom. As Al searches the city for the missing girl, he begins to uncover secrets about the reclusive Gabriel Birdsong that shake him to his very core, so much so that he's not even sure he wants to find Lena.

She was rich, and she was afraid. The victim of a real estate fraud scheme, she's now suspected of killing the man who defrauded her. She comes to Al for help in proving her innocence; a problem, given that Al really doesn't care much for rich, spoiled people who don't know what it's like for the average guy. He takes the case anyway, because he doesn't like to see the innocent suffer, even the rich innocent, and finds himself neck-deep in fraud and murder. Identifying the guilty party is a real challenge when someone's trying to kill you. From the working-class neighborhoods of Rockville, Maryland, to the dingy streets of Northwest DC, Al follows a faint trail, trying to identify a cold, calculating killer. At the same time, danger shadows his every step. With the clock ticking, and his client's continued freedom in doubt, Al has to do the impossible. But, the more complex the problem, the more Al likes it; and he really loves this one.

Leana Sonnenberg didn't usually accompany her writer husband, Jacob, on his trips. Then, the one time she does go with him to a vineyard in Northern Virginia, she disappears. The local police don't have a clue, so Jacob hires Al Pennyback to stick his PI nose into the case. Al finds himself looking into everyone's background, and what he finds is far more deadly than he thought--and, it has nothing to do with wine.

Al Pennyback is just your run of the mill private investigator. He and Heather Bunche, his partner, are on retainer for a law firm, doing routine legal investigations. They handle the occasional over the transom case, so they're accustomed to strange cases, but when a morbidly obese client offers Al one hundred thousand dollars to pick up a painting worth three quarters of a million dollars, he learns what strange really means. What he figured would be a well-compensated, but routine, and probably boring, pickup and delivery turns into a run for his life as rogue Russian gangsters decide he needs to die.