When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are referred to as to London, North Dakota, they immediately sense that the thriving fracking city is ripe for bother. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, and the neighborhood is rising quicker than homes could be constructed. The sudden growth has additionally introduced a slew of issues with it, together with medicine, property crimes, prostitution—and now homicide.
Decker and Jamison are ordered to research the loss of life of a younger lady named Irene Cramer, whose physique was expertly autopsied after which dumped within the open—which is simply the start of the eccentricities surrounding the case. As Decker and Jamison dig into Irene's life, they’re shocked to find that the lady who walked the streets by evening as a prostitute was a trainer for a neighborhood spiritual sect by day—a sect working on land as soon as owned by a mysterious authorities facility that looms over the whole neighborhood.
London is a city replete with ruthless enterprise homeowners, shady authorities officers, and spiritual outsiders, all decided to maintain their secrets and techniques from popping out. When different murders happen, Decker will want all of his extraordinary reminiscence and detective expertise, and the help of a stunning ally, to root out a killer and the forces behind Cramer's loss of life . . . earlier than the growth city explodes.
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