After the death of J. Burton Caldwell, president of the First National Bank of Contrary, West Virginia, federal bank examiners find three-quarter of a billion dollars missing.  In an attempt to recoup their losses, an auction is held of the former president’s artifacts that he had collected for the museum that he founded.  A museum of Fakes and Frauds.  Failure analyst Owen Allison is worried about his up-coming fiftieth birthday, his mother’s Alzheimer’s deterioration and his ward’s drug problem.  He demonstrates that the car accident that killed a recent bidder at the auction was no accident.  He soon gets involved with the investigation as well as the museum’s curator, who later disappears.  He suddenly becomes the target of someone who wants him out of the way.   

John Billheimer has written a truly wonderful story that will take the reader on a ride that will thrill and chill.  Mr. Billheimer writes characters that leap off the pages and the plot is an easy read in spite of the twists, turns and all the things that are going on.  Mr. Billheimer has everything in order and the reader will be hard pressed to  guess who is involved with the embezzlement and other crimes that are happening.  Owen is an interesting character with flaws, worries and hardships that makes him very real.  This reviewer loves mysteries and she enjoyed this one very much.  John Billheimer is an author that this reviewer will be hunting down and looking for more of his work to read very soon.

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