What a wonderful read. Officer Johathan Harding makes a deal with a Mr. Sol Berner that allows him to extent an investigation forty years into the past. Hardings is motivated to find out why his father, a chemical engineer, was murdered. But, while in the past, Harding uncovers a family secret linking his parents to the mob. DiChiara's tongue-in-cheek writing style gives the reader a delightfully wicked romp in 1949.