She was a pretty lady who wore a little bathing suit to match the lime in her drink. He was an attorney who'd loved and lost and loved again. They came together because her husband was missing, or maybe he was dead, or maybe it didn't matter. Now Matthew Hope finds himself moving through a case where all the players are playing their own games, from kinky sex to high-class thievery, and everyone is playing it his own way. With one man already found dead on a Calusa beach with another man's I.D. in his pocket, Matthew Hope has one chance of getting at the truth. Follow a trail of lies to the city of stars, wanna-bes, and icy wind -- where Hope will get help from a detective named Steve Carella, of the 87th Precinct...