Detective Sarah Alt #2
Putnam
March 2017
On Sale: February 21, 2017
Featuring: Sarah "Salt" Alt
352 pages ISBN: 0399167277 EAN: 9780399167270 Kindle: B01HCGYUD2 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
A timely and penetrating mystery about the intersection of policing, racism, and the communityβset in a city at its boiling pointβfrom an author whoβs been in the trenches and seen it all.
A senseless act of violence.
During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College, a historically black womenβs institution, are assaulted by rifle fire from a passing vehicle. On her way to interview witnesses, Detective Sarah βSaltβ Alt confronts the fleeing vehicle of the suspects, but they get away.
A city in turmoil.
While other detectives take the lead on the Spelman murders, Salt is tasked to investigate the case of a recently discovered decomposed body. When she combs through the missing-persons reports, it becomes clear the victim is a girl Salt took into custody two years before, and Salt feels a grave responsibility to learn the truth about how the girl died. But before she can pursue any leads, Salt is called onto emergency riot detailβin the wake of the assault on the Spelman students, Atlanta has reached the boiling point.
In a city burdened by history and a community erupting in pain and anger, Salt must delve into the past for answers. A gripping and astute story about what it means to serve and protect, Old Bones solidifies Trudy Nan Boyce as an evocative, authoritative voice in crime fiction.
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