Where has jazzman Davey Post been hiding out for more than forty years? Will a body unearthed in Memphis finally solve this mystery?
In 1963, jazz sensation Davey Post vanishes on his return home from a European concert tour. More than forty years later, a mummified corpse is unearthed at a Memphis construction site with Post’s trumpet nearby, and Captain J.D. Howard must re-create Post’s last days. His detectives concern themselves with the here-and-now of hard evidence. In-between press conferences, barbecue lunches, a trip to Chicago, a summer of drug murders, and the birth of his granddaughter, Howard finds Davey Post was not the paragon of 'clean living' of legend. Aided by Post's former bandmate, a blues legend, a musicologist, a concert accompanist, an evangelist with a mysterious past and a free-spirited Scotland Yard detective, Howard and his squad get to the bottom of the generation-long mystery.