Pittsburgh private investigator Jack Larson undertakes a simple check on a failure to pay child support -- but when he finds the subject's dead body and the man's attractive young (if estranged) daughter wants to uncover the killer, life gets complicated. New families created after the dead man's departure seem unconnected to his current life -- or are they? Then there's his high school friend who now runs organized crime in a nearby community, and a former lady friend who's still part of the situation. Nothing's quite what it seems, but Larson's committed to uncovering the real story. Or...