Danny Tobin is a killer. He knows death in the way others know life. He knows its smells, he knows its touch, he knows the lovely promises it will always fail to keep and he knows the euphoria it can bring.Danny Tobin is also a cop.When a vicious late-summer storm on the coast of Massachusetts leads to the discovery of eight dead prostitutes in an abandoned cranberry bog in the wealthy town of Duxbury, Danny, a driven and conflicted state police detective, is pulled into a complex investigation that will reach all the way to the top of the department and force him to deal with events, emotions-and people-from his past that he thought he'd buried for good.Danny quickly focuses on a reclusive Brazilian named DeSilva and his nephew Alves whom he discovers have been running the low-end sex trade for years in the Boston suburbs, discreetly supplying their customers with barely teenage girls plucked off the streets of villages all over South America. Haunted by his failure to protect his younger sister from a predator years earlier, Danny and his partner Frank "Tex" Teixeira go after DeSilva and his men with a vengeance.As the investigation deepens, so does Danny's budding relationship with Caroline, a beautiful young doctoral student who also has drawn the attention of DeSilva. Soon, Danny and Tex find themselves in the middle of a brutal internecine war that forces Danny to confront some ugly truths about himself and those around him that threaten to destroy his friendship with Tex, their careers and even their own families.Motherless Children is a story about the small decisions that can define our lives, the true nature of good and evil and finding the strength to do what needs to be done-regardless of the consequences.