Dinah Pelerin has finally put her life in order. Living in Berlin with her boyfriend Thor, she has landed a job teaching Native American cultures at the university. She's never felt happier-until her Seminole mother Swan shows up with a crazy blackmail scheme and dredges up a secret Dinah has kept hidden. Germans harbor a century-long fascination with the American Wild West and American Indians, like Der Indianer Club which has invited Swan to a powwow where she plans to meet her blackmail victim. Dinah tries to head her off, but arrives at the scene too late. A man has been killed and scalped and Swan quickly becomes the prime suspect. Torn between love for her mother and dismay at her incessant lies, Dinah sets out to find the killer. But Swan isn't the only liar. Everyone is lying about something. Ghosts of Germany's terrible history haunt Berlin while Dinah faces exorcising a hateful ghost of her own. Jeanne Matthews is the author of the Dinah Pelerin mystery series including Bones of Contention, Bet Your Bones, and Bonereapers. Like her anthropologist sleuth, Matthews travels around the world learning about other cultures and mythologies, which she incorporates into her novels. www.jeannematthews.com