Claire Brannick kept files. Thirty-one years of child welfare cases, and buried in the paperwork, a trail that leads somewhere no one expected. Grimes follows it. She doesn't like where it goes.
A state senator lies dead in an alley behind his own fundraiser. A single wound. A missing knife from nowhere. And the faint scent...
Nathan Brannick is missing. His father is dead. The evidence points one direction, and Grimes follows it — into an arrest and a crime...
Three weeks of dead ends. Three weeks of cologne and alibis and false trails that all led somewhere loud... and nowhere true. Then Mark...
