April Storm is the twenty-third young woman to disappear in the Chester, Nova Scotia. The residents are panic-stricken. The police are stymied. And there are no clues as to who is responsible for these crimes. The families of the missing women seek the help of Crandel Christmas, a successful and well-known criminal defence lawyer, who agrees to take the case. As he strings together clues, he discovers someone is stealing crucial evidence from his file—someone in his firm.

With few exceptions, the lawyers at ‘Christmas, Dibbles and Weiberhass’ have only two things in common: their smouldering hatred for one another … and their insatiable greed.

Then yet another woman goes missing, her effigy is found flaming on a cross, and the accused is denied bail and murdered in jail. Crandel realizes that everyone in his firm is suspect. But when he is kidnapped and left for dead, he knows he has to trust at least one of his colleagues to help bring down the most evil misogynist of all time.

“If you can’t put Thin Glass Houses down once you start reading it, join the club. M.M. Melvin’s twisting and fast-paced plot, heart thumping suspense, and dry humour, will keep the reader up long after everyone else has gone to sleep. It’s a masterpiece of criminal suspense.” Best-selling author Vernon Oickle.