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In the second installment of the suspense-filled series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ian K. Smith, an ex-cop turned private investigator seeks to fight corruption on the streets of Chicago.
A Cadillac, a pistol, and a corpse make for another morning in Chicago. The body belongs to Walter Griffin, a prominent Black Chicagoan insider hailing from the city's West Side. He ascended to the upper echelons of the mayor's office only to meet his end in a watery grave at Wolf Point. Forensics finds his prints on the gun; it's ruled a suicide.
But grizzled private investigator Ashe Cayne knows better.
Griffin's children plead with a reluctant Ashe to hunt their father's killer. They know their dad wouldn't have taken his own life without a goodbye. And Ashe knows this town's dark secrets often mean murder is not too far away.
Ashe decides to take on the case and navigate a city rotting with corruption, racial tensions, and sketchy backroom deals. On the bleak streets of Chicago, it's every man for himself--and that makes everyone a suspect.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
At the start of bestseller Smith's entertaining sequel to 2020's The Unspoken, the two grown children of late Chicago politician Walter Griffin, "one of the South Side's biggest supporters," ask PI Ashe Cayne, a wealthy, suave, athletic, well-read, and straight-shooting ex-cop who picks his own cases, to investigate the death of their father. Two years earlier, Griffin's body was found on a deserted strip of land by the Chicago River. Griffin apparently shot himself, and the authorities so ruled, but his children are sure it's a case of murder made to look like suicide. Despite suffering romantic angst from a lost love and an urge to work on lowering his golf handicap, Cayne dives into the case. Unraveling the complicated crime takes him all over Chicago and into many levels of the city's social and political structure, though he discovers that the whole affair boils down to a few simple, universal motivations: "jealousy, hatred, money, and sex." On the side, Cayne supervises a bit of vigilante justice. This is smart, smooth escapism. Readers will hope Cayne will be back soon. Agent: Mitch Hoffman, Aaron Priest Literary. (Oct.)
Library Journal Review
In Smith's sequel to The Unspoken, the adult children of Black Chicago politico Walter Griffin ask P.I. Ashe Cayne to look into their father's mysterious death, two years after it was ruled a suicide. Neither Griffin's family nor the residents of Chicago's South Side believe he killed himself; Griffin's wife is convinced someone in the mayor's office ordered a hit on him. Golf lover Ashe has the time to invest in the case, since leaving the Chicago police force with a several million dollar settlement. As he digs into Griffin's past, he finds that lots of people might have wanted him dead, including Russians who lost money on a land deal and wealthy mobsters who were owed money. Even the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools was an enemy. Ashe knows that murders can be connected to jealousy, hatred, money, or sex--with Walter Griffin, any of those could be the cause. Ashe's dogged determination and dislike of political game-playing lead him to a surprising solution. VERDICT An intriguing sequel, though it could do without some of the details of Chicago and golf; fans of Stephen Mack Jones's "August Snow" mysteries will enjoy.--Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN