Meet Steve Stilwell—lawyer, detective, and cunning ex-Navy JAG—in this thrilling mystery series debut. "Watch out CSI!" (Kathleen Jabs, author of Black Wings)
After serving twenty-two years in the military, Steve Stilwell is now a civilian attorney in Williamsburg, Virginia. His first assignment seems simple: update the will of Professor Felix Siegel, a seventy-year-old Auschwitz survivor. Accompanying the old man is his beautiful adopted daughter, Michelle. She's set to inherit. Eventually. With a catch. Siegel's 1.5 million-dollar estate is first bequeathed to three wartime friends . . . if they survive him. If they don't, their shares belong to Michelle. When the professor dies, Stilwell's search for the heirs begins.

So far, dead ends. Two of the three men have died under suspicious circumstances—the latest in Düsseldorf. Although German police are convinced Michelle is behind it, Steve needs to be sure. He begins a frantic search for answers where the life of the final beneficiary—and his own—are hanging in the balance. Now he must stay one step ahead of a cold-blooded killer in this "stem-winding, magnetic barnburner . . . for anyone who loves a great legal mystery" (Don Brown, author of the Pacific Rim series).