JOHN MOSS is the author of two dozen books, including Invisible Among the Ruins: Field Notes of a Canadian in Ireland and Being Fiction, a collection of short stories. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a scuba diving instruction. He lives in a stone farmhouse in Peterborough, Ontario.

..has all the markings of a most interesting series with a pair of detectives who give the reader so much to like in the book.-A corpse with a comb-over is discovered in a garden pond, but the real mystery begins not with the dead man but with a stunning woman who declares herself to be the nondescript victim's mistress.