John March

Private investigator John March is hired to find missing Wall Street analyst Gregory Danes. Once ubiquitous on television, Danes's star went into steep decline along with the stock market; he's best known now for his volatile temper and his obsession with restoring his tattered reputation. His ex-wife wants to know why the alimony checks have stopped, but what seems to be a straightforward missing persons case becomes something much more deadly. March unearths a rat's nest of family strife and business betrayals. And, March discovers, he isn't alone in his hunt for the missing man. Now his investigation takes on a terrifying urgency as it leads him through the corrupt corridors of white-collar crime and into the more intricate maze of the human heart.

With a troubled past and a job that attracts too much attention from the law, private investigator John March has always been the black sheep of his merchant banking family, which makes the identity of his latest client all the more surprising: his smug older brother. David March has been having affairs with anonymous women he meets on the internet, and now one of these women is stalking him. David knows her only as Wren. She, however, knows everything about David, and she's threatening to tell his wife and colleagues, ruining his life. But after Wren turns up dead, John finds he's no longer searching for a stalker, now he's looking for a murderer, and the clues keep leading him back to his older brother's doorstep.