Dr. Ian Gaines, retired Creative Writing teacher from Martin Luther King HighSchool, has kept a secret for almost fifty years. He was the subject of the classical piec The Most annoying Boy Ihave Ever Known, one of two musical piano compositions by his murdered girlfriend, prodigy Jennifer Rogers. The opuses are still popular today. But a recent DNA test of his convicted classmate shows that the wrong person has spent the last fifty years in prison. One of the original detectives on the casehas come toLong Beach, California, to reopen the old case, and his number suspect is Ian. Ian's wife, Jowena Martinez, is Police Captain, and is disqualfiedto prove her husband's innocence. Ian stands to lose his wife, their palnned adoption of Jowena's seven-year-old niece, and his freedom if he cannot find and prove whoreally committed the torture-murde of Jennifer. Of the original suspects, all but one is still alive , thogh none will be likely to ehlp him out. The only thing he is sure of is that silence is no longer an option.
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