Hands Across The Grave

Awarded the 2019 Silver Badge, Recommended Read Award1967 - Southern CaliforniaAfter twenty-seven years with the FBI, Assistant Special Agent, James Riley, has officially retired. Finally out of the crazy and unpredictable world of law enforcement, he and his wife, Meg, are excited to start the next chapter of their lives in the small town of Monrovia, California.Meg throws James a surprise retirement party that brings their daughter, Clair, and her husband, Tom, home from Ohio and reunites James with his old friend Bob Maywood. When Clair announces that she and Tom will be moving back to Monrovia, James and Meg are thrilled. However, their excitement turns to terror when Clair and Tom fail to return from a short walk. A search of the neighborhood leads James and Bob to an abandoned house, where they find Clair’s opal and diamond necklace and a chloroform-soaked rag.James and Bob team up with his former supervisor, Special Agent Hank Welch, to find Clair and Tom. They soon find themselves caught in a web of lies, revenge, and deception that threatens the Riley family and friends.