Helen Lockwood\'s boat was found drifting off Sleeping Bear Dunes with no one aboard.
He\'s not a criminal lawyer, but he\'s convinced there is a clue somewhere that will unlock the truth..
A man at loose ends, Burr is a brilliant litigator who prefers sailboats and dogs over courtrooms and clients.
All of the evidence points to Tommy, but there\'s no shortage of suspects.
It seems he had been trying to sell the orchards to the Park Service ever since Helen went missing.
But now Helen\'s husband, Tommy, is arrested for her murder.
Burr Lafayette, recently divorced and the deposed head of a major Detroit law firm, had kept the Park Service at bay for seven years.
She had been in court, fighting with the National Park Service, which was trying to take her family\'s four-hundred-acre cherry orchard for the new national park.
A year later, her body was found in a shallow grave on South Manitou Island.
Helen Lockwood\'s boat was found drifting off Sleeping Bear Dunes with no one aboard