Pittsburgh is a stew of ethnic divisions and, for some, a heritage of crime,
punishment, and revenge. This is the legacy left to Carroll Dorsey, the son of a
powerful political boss who is on his deathbed. Now a P.I. working the same streets
where he once played as a boy, Dorsey is determined to look forward and not back
as he makes a living in the city he's always called home.
But nothing is as it seems when Dorsey is retained by an old gentlemanly Jewish
gangster to search for the man's long-lost lover. As Dorsey traces the life, times, and
disappearance of a magnificent woman with a Lena Horne smile, he finds himself
immersed in the most agonizing case of his career. For as he winds his way through
broken families, broken neighborhoods, and broken promises, to the scene of a
horrifying triple homicide, Dorsey is forced to confront a crime carried out fifty
years ago--one that reaches far too close to home...
