A housekeeper named Maria Gutierrez is seventeen minutes from the end of her shift. A retired man is dead in a bathtub two doors down. And Detective Grimes is about to walk into a case that will unravel everything she thinks she knows about a family.
A name surfaces. A county file is unsealed. The DNA tells a story about a family that rewrote its own history, and Grimes begins...
The DNA results come back. The case against Nate Brannick starts to crack. Grimes drives two hours to a dead man's house and finds...
The oldest motive in the book. A powerful man. Secret hotel rooms. Late-night phone calls to numbers that don't belong to his wife. When...