HERB NASH is about to keep an important business appointment in Lamar Madison's cramped Phoenix law office, but finds himself shaking hands with a homicide detective who suspects they brutally murdered a small time con-artist and only son of one of the city's wealthiest widows. Jim B's dismembered body parts were discovered earlier that morning splayed around a storm drain in the heart of an exclusive Camelback Mountain neighborhood. HERB NASH takes it personal when he hears their business cards were found tucked inside the dead man's shirt pocket. That makes them the only "persons of interest" and potential suspects in the murder investigation. HERB NASH is reluctantly convinced by Lamar to fire up his PI license only ever used for skip-tracing dead beat dads and credit criminals. If he can use it to open up some doors in search of more likely persons of interest maybe he can keep the police busy and off his back. This first entry in the Herb Nash Murder Mystery series finds him twice escaping brutal death, taking down an unlikely psychopathic killer, and discovering a shocking secret about himself.