Between the gentle trade winds and the thriving tourist trade, the year-round summer days and the languid nights, the living is easy in Key West. That's just the way Gideon Lowry likes it - and just the sort of phrasing he'd borrow from the classic tunes he tickles on the ivories, weekend nights in the local lounge. In a town where "people either came to drop out, or renew themselves before heading back to the real world," Gideon fits comfortably into the first category - with all disrespect for the rat race, and no apologies.He's been everything from fireman and fisherman to soldier, cop and husband...three times. But the only habits he's stuck with over the years have been drinking and detective work - not always in that order - and music. These days, when he's not bird-dogging AWOL witnesses for the state attorney's office, Gideon's at the keyboard, giving them Gershwin and Porter to chase away the blues and help chase down the booze.That's where Virginia Murphy finds him. Shrouded in somber white, she's come back to Key West to lay a real ghost to rest - by finding out who murdered her sister, Lila, nearly forty years before. For Gideon, it's a gig that leads him down the darker side of memory lane - where haunting snatches of his own past, like the timeless melodies he plays, linger on. Secrets linger there, too. But they're buried as deeply as the paradise that was Florida's landscape, now entombed beneath the concrete of Bayard Cement. That ubiquitous family business - and the wealthy, influential clan behind it - are wall that Gideon slams up against harder and harder as he investigates his hometown's hidden history. In a community famous for knowing other people's business, no one has much to say about the long-ago death of a former high school sweetheart. Doors that were once left unlocked are swinging shut in Gideon's face, and even his hotshot-senator brother can't - or won't penetrate the closed ranks. It's enough to drive a P.I. to drink...until Virginia Murphy topples to her own untimely death.That's when Gideon takes the pledge - to unlock the shocking truth that Key West has concealed too long beneath its sunny, sultry, surface, and to face a killer's music and dance... Read Less