When LAPD Homicide Detective, Charlie Bates, suffered a debilitating heart attack he thought his time investigating heinous crimes were over. Little did he know that a newspaper article about the 40th anniversary of the Secosky family murders would draw him into a mystery that involved the CIA, the KGB, disgruntled relatives, jealous neighbors, escaped convicts, pedophiles, and jilted lovers. Waiting for a heart transplant, and being attached to a heart pump machine, cannot keep Detective Charlie Bates down. With the help of his young wife, Maureen, they plunge into a deep mystery that has not been solved in over four decades. Will Charlie Bates run out of heartbeats before this cold case can be solved?
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