After the shocking murder of Ed Netherland at a secluded location in the Virgin Islands, architect Kem Hinton (Tennessee Bicentennial Mall) is stunned and confused by a mysterious occurrence at the funeral of his former classmate. Given a haunting challenge, he embarks on a decade-long investigation into the lifetime exploits of this ingenious person after their shared time in school, uncovering a fascinating yet bizarre, tangled web of toxic waste endeavors, controversial life insurance techniques, enticing investment schemes, accumulation of enormous wealth, and then the loss of millions ... any one of which may have contributed to the wildly-ambitious person's death in paradise. A spellbinding page-turner, the true story Nether Land will keep the reader mesmerized and awake at night pondering the still unsolved crime and its darkest questions.