This is basically a short story introducing a series of mysteries with Sam Lawson as the main character. He's one of the youngest detectives on his first case. It's only 41 pages and quite a few editing mistakes are in it - the most glaring is the victim is described as the owner of a video store, then a phone store, then a video store again.

I never found a summary from the publisher, Amazon, etc. Still, I recommend it because in 41 pages he caught my interest, and I will probably read more by this auyhor. ( )