The past and the present are inextricably linked: it’s the future that is the great intangible. Good food, good booze and good loving can mitigate present travails, but not so easily those past. Jack Butler knows; he’s tried. Join DCI Jack Butler and his team of detectives as they attempt to unravel a long-forgotten mystery, using solid police investigatory practices, in a time when computers, cellphones and DNA are reserved for science fiction. Old foes, new friends and the same age-old challenges. Maybe Butler should have spent more time reading Machiavelli, instead of dwelling on Ovid’s tenet, “ Omnia Vincit Amor? ” But then, some people learn from their mistakes, some from the mistakes of others, and some people just never learn.