Book excerpt: A Headless Case Part IV in the series is about PI Simon Fintch. The famous TV personality and food writer Roger Woods finds a severed woman’s head in his bag in his locker at the gym in New York. He can’t identify the victim and he can’t understand why he has been given the macabre find. It is completely impossible to identify the victim and he himself can’t understand the motive for the crime. The Police have been investigating the scene around the gym to find the rest of the victims, but they haven’t been able to find anything. There has also been an investigation into whether there is another case of a female body without a head. No such case has been found in the rest of the United States. Simon Fintch is tasked with solving the case and that takes him to Roger Woods's childhood home in the idyllic house from the year 1847 where his sister Melissa Woods still lives. It will once again be an intractable case for Simon, it will take many hearings before he comes up with the solution. This is an extra hard time for Simon who has lots of problems with his family that also take his time and strength. After Simon solves the case, something very unexpected and tragic happens and his whole life will change for a long time to come.