In the final case by acclaimed mystery writer S. T. Haymon, who recently passed away, Detective Inspector Ben Jurnet struggles to solve a murder while attempting to sort out his own life after the tragic death of his beautiful Miriam.Jurnet finds facing his daily routine without Miriam an extremely daunting task. Even dating Pnina Benvista, Miriam's protegee and successor to her knitwear company, does not seem to dull the pain of his loss. But Jurnet's professional life refuses to wait for him - and the local police call in the detective inspector to help decide what to do about the gathering of ten thousand men who have "peacefully" assembled in the public park.They have been gathered together by Charlie Appleyard on the five hundredth anniversary of the hanging of Loy Tanner, a local hero who fought for the dispossessed peasantry. Charlie, the spiritual heir to Tanner, promises that this time there will be no violence committed against the community - these men have come quietly to protest the fact that they cannot find honest work. They refuse to leave until they are given jobs.Two days after the "sit-in" begins, however, Charlie is found dead in the local red-light district. And as Jurnet attempts to discover just who Charlie was, he must also journey within himself and decide who he is to become - without Miriam. Read Less