First published 2014
Jane Ryland arrives at a suburban home where a middle-class family faces eviction. The reporter expects a straightforward human interest story about foreclosure victims. Instead, she discovers a complex financial scheme worth millions. Someone orchestrates home seizures through manipulation and fraud. The perpetrators will kill to protect their operation. Meanwhile, Boston detective Jake Brogan questions a confession in the twenty-year-old Lilac Sunday murder case. His colleagues accept the man's admission of guilt. Jake suspects the confessor lies. He has personal stakes in solving this cold case that complicate his judgment. As Jane digs deeper into the foreclosure fraud, the schemes converge in unexpected ways. Both investigations reveal that financial crimes destroy families and communities. The search for truth becomes dangerous when powerful interests want secrets buried. Jane and Jake must separate lies from facts while risking their lives.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Boston
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
400 pages · Kindle Edition · Forge Books