WHEN ILLUSIONS DIE. This item is unavailable.WHEN ILLUSIONS DIE

When a grieving father asks private detective Mike Concienne to investigate the death of his twenty-one-year-old daughter, it’s because he believes her death was not an accident and that someone had killed her. Mike agrees to help but cautions that he does not expect to find the cause of death to be other than what the New Orleans Police Department had determined. Mike’s investigation is complicated by the father’s confidence that Sarah was a model college student and daughter. Mike finds the truth about Sarah’s life to be devastatingly different than what had been believed. Mike’s investigation leads to unexpected outcomes.Mike’s best friend asks him to help locate his missing brother-in-law, a troubled Army veteran. He has not been heard from since he had left home in Lake Charles to start a new job in New Orleans. Mike is compelled to help his lifelong friend by searching for the man who does not want to be found.Mike navigates below the glitzy surface of the French Quarter and the City of New Orleans trying to resolve both cases while struggling with his personal demons.The rich setting of New Orleans, the layers of complexity of these cases intertwined with Mike’s own troubled life make for a compelling story.