Peretz' first novel, The Mosel Legacy was called "a page-turner that goes straight to the heart and the conscience." His second, again features Ross Cortese, NYPD. The discovery of skeletal remains behind the wheel of a Mercedes sedan, at the muddy bottom of a remote, ice-covered Berkshire pond, leads Sally McDevitt, (Chief of Detectives, State Police), to join Ross in working this colder than cold case. Are there sinister, murderous forces behind an attempted hostile takeover of the Broderick Corporation, or is Edward Cadmus, CEO, deluded? The story takes us from boardrooms to bedrooms, psychiatric offices to Athens and Zurich, as the detectives seek to unravel the Broderick Curse.