<p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: windowtext;">In this fourth murder mystery of the Joe Zuma series, Zuma&nbsp;and his partner Pat Vasquez have been called to examine two bodies on the shores of Santa Monica's&nbsp;Pacific Ocean. The story unfolds further with distraught cries from an orthodox-Islamic&nbsp;woman, District Attorney Avril Kouri, who sees the dead body of her orthodox Jewish- lover, Phyllis Shankman. This&nbsp;leads the detectives to uncover drug dealing in the city's public schools, an unforgiving orthodox parent,&nbsp;a principal who is less than principled and a brilliant, scheming homeless person. The adventures of the detectives also involve an Egyptian businessman who idolizes Motown singers and a few sports heroes and a murdered parent who has left a generous gift to his grown daughter who is wrestling&nbsp;with her&nbsp;efforts to overcome&nbsp;ethnocentrism and mistrust of males. Towards the dénouement to all these circumstances we meet a parent who falsely confesses to a murder and learn about&nbsp;a Las Vegas child adoption that leads us to a murderer and also brings into the storyline Zuma's wife Claudia. This eventual multiplicity of criminal inputs allows many adventures for the detective duo, a surprising conclusion based on the aggregating&nbsp;clues and to Claudia's effort&nbsp;to help Pat Vasquez&nbsp;understand what it means to love.</span></p><p><br></p>