Rhapsody

In 1935, Kansas City detective Phil Morris receives a call from candy heiress Cynthia Stuart. She claims Millbrook Chocolates, her dead father's business, is hemorrhaging money. In addition, tenants leasing her childhood home believe the old Stuart house is haunted. Cynthia wants Phil and his team to investigate the loss of company funds and odd occurrences at her former home.

[After her parents were tragically murdered ten years earlier, the police decided Cynthia's teenage brother killed them and then turned the murder weapon on himself.] "And one more thing," Cynthia tells Phil: "There is no way my brother killed my parents and then himself... I'll never believe anything else."

As Phil and his team slog through the intertwined matters of closed-case murders, a failing business, and a haunted house, his problems are confounded by a distracting dilemma in his love life. Danger escalates, and though Phil doesn't believe in ghosts, the possibility of supernatural answers looms ever larger.

Kline's Rhapsody stands as a worthy companion to his initial Phil Morris novel, But Not for Me.