When several homicide victims turn up in culverts, creeks, and isolated business parks with multiple and fake IDs, Smokey Brandon’s job as an evidence collector gets even tougher.  The victims slide into the coroner's van as Juan Does, becoming as invisible in death as they seemed to be in life.

Haunted by the death of a young female border crosser found in an urban crash-pad, and burdened with an increasing case load, Smokey almost gives in to futility.  Then, linkages begin to emerge just as the anguished 20-year-old son of Smokey's lover confides a terrible secret and swears her to secrecy.  While her lover lies in a hospital, Smokey, a former cop and nightclub stripper, goes after the killers with a vengeance, closing a gap in her own maturing while helping her lover's son find a path to his own.  

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Five Star Books -- 2000 -- ISBN 0-78622897-0    $20.95

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