It all begins when PI Gulliver Dowd is approached by Ellis Torres, a street kid, on Valentino Pier in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Ellis has lost his dog, and after Gulliver helps to find the dog for him, they go their separate ways. So when Ellis is discovered beaten, unconscious, and left for dead not far from the pier early the following morning, Gulliver is horrified-and suspicious. He sets out to find the attacker and learn why the boy was...

"Maxine Benson, police chief in a small town, sets out to solve the murder of the town bully in this work of crime fiction."--

Gulliver Dowd, a private investigator, takes on a missing persons case when he learns that the runaway girl is his own child--the product of a high school romance.