Father Dowling is called on again to solve a puzzle. The disappearance of Wallace Flanagan doesn't seem to be a mystery so much as a dirty little secret. By all appearances, Flanagan skipped town with his mistress more than ten years ago. But appearances go right out the window when his mangled---and recently live---body is found wedged into one of his father's cement mixers. Who would murder a man who was already all but dead? And would kill again to keep a dead man's secrets?