Justin Glass comes from a rich family, but you would never know it.
Justin is a lawyer and works in a very shabby office. He's doing his best
to raise his daughter Sammy after his wife passed away. Justin doesn't
have very many clients, until a young African-American girl named
Tanisha walks into his office with a jar of money and wants to hire him
to find her missing brother, Devon. Along with all of this, his senator
father is set to retire, and he wants Justin to take his seat. Lincoln,
Justin's brother, wants the seat for himself, which is causing friction in
their family.
Justin really doesn't want to take Tanisha's case, because he believes
that black boys run away all the time. Justin does do some investigating
on her brother's whereabouts but finds out the police never take the
time to look into cases like this one. That is until he gets a call from a
detective requesting him to come to a murder scene. What Justin finds
is very upsetting. Not only does he find Devon, but several other black
children that had gone missing.
In the mist of all the racial violence that has been going on, this is not
acceptable to Justin. So, Justin decides to do his own investigating.
Some of the things that he comes upon, some legal some not, leads
him to several suspects. Why would someone want to dispose of these
boys? That is what Justin is trying to find out.
J. D. Trafford writes a great mystery. It is a shame that in 2017 we still
have people that feel they can take it upon themselves to get rid of
people. Trafford shows the struggles that not only black people go
through, but that something like this could happen anywhere. Trafford
also tells the story of Justin, who struggles with his own demons.
Trafford shows that no matter white or black, sometimes children can
be very cruel. Justin's family has money, but he prefers to do things on
his own, leading to his daughter getting bullied in school. Once people
find out her family has money, things change and not for the better.
Attorney Justin Glass’s practice, housed in a shabby
office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn’t doing so
well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-
year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change
to find her missing brother, he doesn’t have the heart to
turn her away.
Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. But all
that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered
body—and the bodies of twelve other African American
teenagers, all discarded like trash in a mass grave. Each
had been reported missing. And none had been
investigated.
As simmering racial tensions explode into violence,
Justin finds himself caught in the tide. And as he gives
voice to the discontent plaguing the city’s forgotten and
ignored, he vows to search for the killer who preys upon
them.
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