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.
A name surfaces. A county file is unsealed. The DNA tells a story about a family that rewrote its own history, and Grimes begins...
A housekeeper named Maria Gutierrez is seventeen minutes from the end of her shift. A retired man is dead in a bathtub two doors...
Nathan Brannick is missing. His father is dead. The evidence points one direction, and Grimes follows it — into an arrest and a crime...
