“In the latest from Mike Lawson, Joe DeMarco is is asked by the Speaker of the House to do a favor for an old friend and investigate the death of the man's son. What follows is an intricate, knotty plot, where the justice may be unconventional but is certainly appropriate. Lawson understands how the world works, how real people move through it, and he renders it with an unassumingly poetic -- and wittily cynical -- narration.”