Publisher's Synopsis
Lily Ellsworth is the grande dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and a bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson's alleged involvement in a school shooting, she leads him into a case that grows more harrowing at every turn. Though seven people were killed in cold blood - and despite being named as a co-conspirator by the other shooter - Mrs Ellsworth is convinced of her grandson's innocence. The boy's parents are resigned to his fate, and he doesn't seem to care whether he goes to jail, innocent or guilty...
