The crime: a residential robbery; its object, the valuable art collection of a wealthy attorney. It should have been easy.
Except, somehow, two innocent people wound up very dead.
At war with his inner demons, DeSoto must battle political pressure about his handling of the case, the machinations of his superiors who have their own agenda, and the challenges of a case where everything is more than it seems and nothing is what it should be.
Against all odds, DeSoto presses on to expose hard truths: villains can appear in many guises, ignorance is not bliss, and a falling out among thieves can end a detectives career--if not his life.
Quarter Moon Rising: a stolen painting that lures all who seek it into the shadows of their pasts and the inevitable consequences of their choices and actions. For DeSoto, it sets him on a collision course with an enemy from his past; the man responsible for his partner's death so many years before.
