Some families bury their secrets. Others build entire lives around them. Three months after David Rusk disappeared into Elliott Bay, Eddie James is trying to believe the nightmare is finally over. Rusk is presumed dead, James and Bell Investigations is finding its footing in Seattle, and Eddie would be perfectly happy never hearing the name David Rusk again. Then a murdered man is discovered with Eddie's business card, an old photograph of his father, and a message: ASK EDDIE JAMES WHO HIS BROTHER IS. Suddenly, Rusk may not be dead—and the secrets surrounding Eddie's family are far more complicated than he ever imagined. The investigation draws Eddie, Arthur Bell, and their new ally Nora Whitaker into Portland, where another branch of the mysterious Duck Club has been operating in the shadows. Old photographs, hidden records, coded messages, and decades of carefully constructed lies point toward a conspiracy that connects Eddie's father, Arthur's family, and men who have spent years protecting one another. But the greatest shock is personal. Eddie has spent most of his life believing his older brother Michael drowned when they were children. Now evidence begins to suggest that Michael's death may have been another convenient lie—and that someone went to extraordinary lengths to make certain Eddie never discovered the truth. As Arthur confronts devastating secrets about his own father and Nora becomes increasingly entangled in their dangerous investigation, Eddie must determine which pieces of his family's history are real and which were deliberately manufactured. Because someone has been deciding for years who should be remembered, who should disappear—and who gets to be called a son. The second Eddie James Mystery, *The Convenient Son* is a historical crime thriller about family, identity, corruption, and the dangerous lies parents leave behind for their children.