The Gilded Edges of Shadow: A Paul Marzeky Mystery

The Gilded Edges of Shadow is the latest installment in the Paul Marzeky Mystery Series. After witnessing the bizarre suicide of a former client who he had initially helped clear from murder charges (and who admitted his culpability just before killing himself), Paul goes into deep mourning and self-blame, believing he could have done more. He temporarily abandons his private practice to allow his mourning to take its own course as he knows it must. Then he accepts the referral of a young man who is the scion of an abusive billionaire father who is his legal conservator. Henry, the young man, has a half-billion-dollar trust fund of his own as well as delusions regarding the involvement of the U.S. government reverse engineering alien artifacts from the Roswell crash-a project in which he is firmly convinced his father is involved. When his father is brutally murdered in a manner Henry has described in his fantasies, Paul advocates for his client against the forces of law and order as well as the psychiatric authorities.