by Scott Turow
First published 2013
Paul Giannis campaigns for mayor of Kindle County while his identical twin brother Cass walks out of prison after serving twenty-five years. Cass had pleaded guilty to murdering his girlfriend Aphrodite Kronon, daughter of a powerful neighboring family. Now, with Paul's political ambitions at stake, questions resurface about what really happened that night in 1982. Ex-FBI agent Evon Miller works security for the Kronon family business. She teams up with Tim Brodie, an eighty-one-year-old former homicide detective turned private investigator. Together they dig into the old case, uncovering layers of deception between the Giannis and Kronon families. The investigation threatens to destroy Paul's mayoral campaign and exposes buried secrets about money, power, and desire. As the truth emerges, both families discover how far people will go to protect what they believe, regardless of facts.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary, political-thriller, family-drama
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Kindle County
Period: 1982
371 pages · Hardcover · Grand Central Publishing
Content warnings: murder