Blood Money

When the unidentified body of an elderly man is found in a wooded area of Los Angeles Rancho Park, it appears that he has succumbed to a heart attack. But Jessie suspects foul play. The victim, she discovers, was in vigorous health, made friends wherever he went, and was staying as a nonresident guest at an old age home. He was the only person in his family to come out of the concentration camps alive, with a scar on his forearm bearing chilling testimony to the tattooed numbers that once branded him. A man who survived the Holocaust may have lost his life to a murderer -- a heartwrenching irony to Jessie, who just recently learned of her own link to the historic atrocity. In search of the mystery that brought the old gentleman's life to a lonely end, and driven by a personal mission on behalf of the family she never knew, Jessie combs the records of retirement homes and prods the failing memories of the residents. What she uncovers are more mysterious deaths and a twisted plot of treachery and greed that threatens to finish off Hitler's remaining victims, as well as steal their long-denied wealth from the vaults of Swiss banks.