Murder by Moonlight

<pre spellcheck=false><i>Would you try to save your son from a death sentence if he tried to murder you in your own bed? </i> <br><br>In <i>Murder by Moonlight</i> Vincent Zandri's cunning detective Dick Moonlight returns with his toughest case yet: proving an open-and-shut murder investigation isn't over at all. <br><br>Joan Parker is the last woman private eye Dick Moonlight would ever expect to see in his Albany office. From the right side of the tracks-neighboring Bethlehem-she bears her upper class upbringing as effortlessly as a string of pearls. She also bears a scar running down her head and face-a brutal reminder of the ax attack that took the life of her husband. Her twenty-one-year-old son Christopher now sits in jail charged with the crime. <br><br>According to the official report-based on Joan's answers to police when they arrived at the house and found her barely alive-she identified Christopher as the culprit. But sitting in Moonlight's office she reveals that she has no recollection of the event yet is certain of one thing: Christopher didn't do it. <br><br>Moonlight knows a thing or two about being nearly dead. And he also knows the tragedy of the police jumping to the wrong conclusions-a past case of a falsely accused client still haunts him-so he agrees to take the job and get to the truth of what happened that day. At first the trail of clues-from the crime scene to Joan's original accusation-keeps the finger pointed at Christopher. But soon Moonlight turns up something he never expected something more sinister than anything he's ever come up against. <br><br>Vincent Zandri's latest Dick Moonlight PI thriller <i>Murder by Moonlight</i> is a fast-paced whip-smart tale of a guy who can't always remember getting into trouble-and can't seem to stay out of it. For fans of Robert B. Parker Michael Connelly Ace Atkins Brett Battles Don Winslow and more comes an unputdownable mystery based on a true story that's sure to keep you up all night...in a good way.</pre>