Diamond of Deceit

Dead men don't rob banks

Bank executive Emma Kingston was on vacation when the vault blew up. A man was killed -- and his identity strangely obliterated. A king's ransom littered the floor -- but not a thing was stolen.

Philip Rowlands proposed a chilling explanation for the bizarre break-in. After years of hunting down Coop, Emma's fiance, Philip claimed to have tracked him to the scene of the crime. Apparently Emma had something that had belonged to Coop -- and now he wanted it back. But Coop had given Emma nothing -- except memories that had turned bitter two years ago, when he was presumed dead.

Was Philip the answer to an imperiled woman's prayer? Or the deluded prisoner of an obsession?