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One night in Rock Creek Park an undercover police detective, Sooty Settles died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound amid the cherry blossoms of Washington, DC but his widow, Etta, isn't buying it. Her husband has been murdered. Frank Rococo, at her request, a retail loss prevention specialist begins his amateur investigation...Etta completely unaware that it was Rococo who had shot Det. Settles in the chest that night using a Colt.45 revolver, although the autopsy makes no mention of a chest wound; only that death had resulted from a headshot with a bullet fired from a.38 Special. Such inconsistencies nag Rococo's "gut" as he uncovers even bigger clues until the situation he's facing proves far greater than anyone could have suspected. A Capitol Hill gatekeeper of corruption conspires to precipitate a financial meltdown by detonating a fiscal time-bomb on Wall Street and threaten everything that Rococo holds dear. But the real surprise for him is who killed Sooty Settles.