Thomas & Mercer
October 2016
On Sale: October 11, 2016
Featuring: Alice Riley
364 pages ISBN: 1503939316 EAN: 9781503939318 Kindle: B01DF0TM46 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
When Brooklyn private investigator Alice Riley reluctantly travels to Whitehurst, South Dakota, to investigate an assault charge against her ex-bossβs husband, she discovers more than just a tawdry small-town scandal. A surveyor for the local fracking operation, the accused was leading a dangerous double lifeβshacking up with a prostitute named Kim and overindulging in Whitehurstβs deadly new drug, a powerful stimulant called βdevil dust.β
Out of her element in this badlands boomtown, Alice joins forces with the street-smart Kim, whose connections open doors some in town would rather keep closed. Working together, they descend into the heart of the local drug trade, unraveling a decades-old conspiracy that reaches to the top of Whitehurstβs social strata.
As Alice comes closer to cracking the case, however, people around her start disappearing. With the case and her life spinning out of control, Alice embarks on a single-minded, dust-fueled campaign to expose the truthβan effort that will take her to the darkest places imaginable.
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