What do a daring prison escape and a shocking lynching have in common? Only the inimitable John Jordan can figure it out!
John Jordan searches for an escaped prisoner, investigates a shocking murder, and confronts a sadist forcing his victims to violate themselves—but as he closes in on the criminal, a harrowing river rescue may take more than the depleted detective has left to give.
"Lister deftly juggles multiple plot lines in his sixth John Jordan novel" - Publisher's Weekly
"Lister's sixth John Jordan novel offers the soulful and intuitive sleuth a barrage of crimes. Lister's impoverished, rural setting is deeply evocative of a Florida disappearing under the barrage of development" - Booklist
