Sunset: 1 (John Bekker Mystery)

Nominated for the Edgar Award for best Mystery of 2012. Police Detective John Bekker had it all: a beautiful wife a five-year old daughter and a job he loved...but all of that changed in the blink of an eye. Assigned to a special task force investigating organized crime Bekker got a little too close to mob boss Eddie Crist. As a message to back off Bekkers home is invaded his wife murdered and all this witnessed by his five-year-old daughter. A decade later Bekker a drunk with an institutionalized daughter comes face to face with Eddie Crist now near death from cancer with a final wish -- to go to his grave with a clear conscience. In an ironic twist of fate the man Bekker believed responsible for his wifes death hires him to solve the decade-old murder. The outcome leaves everyone breathless.