| Summary |
After losing a hotly contested sheriff's race to the lackey of corrupt politician Jeb Walsh, Earl Marcus has had the worst summer of his life. But worst turns deadly when a body turns up on Earl's front lawn, accompanied by a cryptic letter. Earl finds a cell phone in the victim's car and tracks it to the Harden School, an old, isolated campus surrounded by barbed wire and locked gates, and catches a sneak peek at a file labeled "Complaints", where he finds a familiar name: Jeb Walsh. Jeb's ex-wife Eleanor had lodged multiple complaints against the school on behalf of her son, and when Earl contacts Eleanor, the horrifying truth begins to emerge. Desperate to make a connection between teh school and the dead man, Earl journeys into a world where nothing is sacred. |
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Sheriffs -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Secrecy -- Fiction.
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Political corruption -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Novels.
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| Series |
Earl Marcus Mystery ; 3
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| ISBN |
9781643851815
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1643851810
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