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This first Owen Delaney mystery follows a young, imaginative Owen as he emerges from a deep personal funk when he stumbles upon what he imagines to be two staged murders. Following his own curiosity and instincts, despite universal feedback that the "murders" were the accidents they seemed to be and that he has simply let his active imagination run away with him, his path eventually crosses with that of a professional hit man hired to preserve the secrets of a complex real estate scam for his employers. From this point on, Owen must not only use his new-found purpose but also his courage and wits to survive.

In this lucid and well plotted first novel in the Owen Delaney series, Gene Caffrey introduces the reader to some memorable characters in the Philadelphia legal and political community and gives a nice feel for life in that city. We also get a glimpse of Owen's future as he falls for the sister of one of the murder victims and begins a new phase of his life which, in follow up works which depict him as an amateur sleuth, is energized by a belief that his wild imagination might be his greatest crime solving asset.

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Eight years after his first exciting success as an amateur sleuth, Owen Delaney finds himself married with kids, content with his professorial job at a university in Philadelphia, but a little bored with his life. All this changes when one of his students is murdered in an apparent drive-by shooting in the colorful and intriguing Hispanic neighborhood of Fairhill. Piecing together clues from the student's diary, Owen pursues a mysterious killer whose life intersected with the dead student's for a few brief minutes years before. Although his "investigation" is hindered by skeptical police and a wife who wants no part of this detective business, Owen cannot resist the pull of the chase and soon finds his own life in danger. Once again saving himself with wits and nerve, Owen then engineers a surprising twist that impresses his police contacts and pulls his wife into his crime solving enterprise.

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Having established himself as a competent amateur, Owen Delaney is asked to check out what might have prompted the suicide of a promising female grad student at the university in Philadelphia where he teaches. Encouraged by the dead girl's father, he suspects foul play, although no one other than the grieving father supports his suspicions. But with the help of a few interesting friends and the surprising support of his wife, he gets an unexpected confession from another grad student who claims he was coerced into murder by a criminal mastermind whose activities the dead girl had inadvertently uncovered. Believing the story and sympathetic to the young man's plight, Owen and his wife begin to put together a case against the mastermind. When the mastermind learns that Owen is on to him, Owen and his family become targets. In an exciting turn of events, the family survives and a crude form of street justice is done.

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Owen Delany loves the detective work he has stumbled into over the years. But the danger involved has too often frightened him and his wife, Barbara. So, for his sabbatical at the University, he hunts up some “armchair” detective work and gets assigned to the case of a long-imprisoned murderer who was begging for help from the Innocence Project in Philadelphia. Widely thought to be the so-called Kensington Strangler, an infamous serial killer, his client, Charles Swenson, was convicted of an unrelated murder that at first glance, was similar to the Stranglings. But Owen believes – or at least hopes—that Swenson is innocent of the murder he was convicted of and, at first, he revels working on the case from a safe distance. But he soon suspects that, not only was his new client innocent, but that he, Owen Delaney the amateur, knew who had done the notorious Stranglings so many years ago. Without support from the Innocence Project, and wary of letting Barbara know what he was up to, he pushes himself to solve the mystery of the Strangelings and finds himself in the world of life-and-death politics. Sorry Owen, sometimes you just can’t avoid the danger.

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After receiving a little publicity for his role in his previous crime solving, Owen is asked by an eccentric but very wealthy colleague at his University to help find his eighteen year old daughter who has run away. Owen and his wife, Barb, agree to help, assuming the task is more social work than crime solving. And despite the insistence of his colleague’s wife that her stepdaughter has been the victim of foul play, Owen and Barb can see no explanation for the girl’s disappearance other than a meticulously planned runaway.

But nagging second thoughts push Owen to press on until he realizes he is dealing with much more than a runaway. And what he is dealing with is deadly.

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