She wasn't on the guest list. She came in through a service entrance, in a dark coat, with tears on her face. She wanted one thing: for the Senator to hear her son's name.
Three months earlier, a twenty-three-year-old college student walked into a convenience store to buy milk... and never walked out. The gun that killed him was manufactured by the Senator's wife's family.
Now Grimes has a new face on the board. A grieving mother with a motive shaped like a bullet. But grief and guilt don't always point where you think they do... and the deeper Grimes digs, the more she realizes this case isn't about who was angry enough to kill. It's about who was afraid.
Nathan Brannick is missing. His father is dead. The evidence points one direction, and Grimes follows it — into an arrest and a crime...
A state senator lies dead in an alley behind his own fundraiser. A single wound. A missing knife from nowhere. And the faint scent...
A housekeeper named Maria Gutierrez is seventeen minutes from the end of her shift. A retired man is dead in a bathtub two doors...
