He had it coming. But who finally gave it to him?No tears for the dead...It was an assault on the sleepy hamlet of Grace, nestled on an island in Puget Sound: a crudely made wanted poster smack in the path of the upcoming New Year's Eve parade. Within hours, P.I. and ex-Chicago cop Molly Piper has a new client: politician Edmond Anderson Bercain, "Wanted for Crimes Against the People."Bercain wants Molly to find the troublemakers--so he can shut them up. But Molly's retainer is still hot in her hands when Bercain turns up dead. Executed with a blunt instrument.As Molly delves into a wealth of suspects--disaffected squatters who blame Bercain for their plight--a series of clues arrive at her door: crude messages leading to a white house with dark goings-on, and chilling motives for murder. Suddenly the most private aspects of her life--her boyfriend, a police chief on the mainland, and a troubled teenager she is mentoring--are at risk. A killer is loose in paradise. And not all of his victims are dead.... - from Amzon