Three weeks of dead ends. Three weeks of cologne and alibis and false trails that all led somewhere loud... and nowhere true.
Then Mark Frost walks into the precinct. Unshaven. Sleepless. Carrying a laptop full of secrets and a story that changes everything.
There was a project. A press release set to send. A senator about to cross the most dangerous line in politics. And someone who decided that the cost of that crossing... was his life.
The truth has been hiding behind the one person Grimes stopped looking at. And the evidence was purchased six months before anyone knew there would be a murder.
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 name surfaces. A county file is unsealed. The DNA tells a story about a family that rewrote its own history, and Grimes begins...
