Tomas Aleciades has a big handicap. He's nearly blind. That doesn't stop him from doing what he most loves…gardening. What will stop him, though, is being accused of murder.
MacFarland is asked by his good friend Jacinto Gomez to prove that Aleciades is innocent. To do that, MacFarland will have to contend with a very naughty thirteen-year old girl, an angry father, crooked cops, and his own doubts and uncertainty.
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The problem was, he had promised his sister-in-law that he would find a way to prove the man innocent. All he had to do was find out who really killed the man's wife, Amanda.
But as every cop knew, it usually was the husband. Then, when the first of several homeless men were discovered killed in the same way as Amanda had been, MacFarland realized he was dealing with a serial killer.
What was the connection between the pretty socialite, Amanda Porter, and a bunch of homeless men? And why couldn't MacFarland shake the feeling that Scott Porter had something to do with all the deaths?
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MacFarland doesn't like it when one of the "invisible people" gets accused of a crime. Innocent or guilty, it doesn't matter – the system is weighted against them.
MacFarland becomes suspicious that the police have the wrong man when he learns that the suspect—an old man named Isaac Dawes, a man who suffers with a bad skin condition—is accused of killing his best friend. After Lord Bozworth, the leader of the homeless community in Denver, asks MacFarland to help free Isaac Dawes, MacFarland is unable to refuse. But if Isaac Dawes didn't kill his best friend, who did?
