If everyone in Clifton County knows everyone else, that may be because half the people in North Falls, one of the county\u2019s four cities, are named Clifton. Det. Allison Vickery doesn\u2019t turn up for the funeral of acting sheriff Emmy Clifton\u2019s mother, Myrna Joy Clifton, first because she\u2019s fleeing her abusive husband, Bill Garrison, then because she\u2019s shot dead. Her murder pulls Emmy, who inherited her job and all its headaches when her father, veteran sheriff Gerald Clifton, was killed six weeks ago, and retired FBI agent Jude Archer, the much older sister who ran off to San Francisco 40 years back, away from the funeral rites and into another of Slaughter\u2019s matchless webs of intrigue inside and outside the Clifton clan. Allison wasn\u2019t the only person shot in the house she was frantic to leave, and the evidence suggests that the shooter had also been targeting her teenage daughter, Mandy, all along. Working closely together even though their troubled family history puts them constantly at odds, Emmy and Jude thrash through a thicket of wrongdoing, from a thriving drug ring to a corrupt cop who\u2019s rumored to have buried some crucial evidence, before they link Allison\u2019s killing to an ancient murder trial that took a 180-degree turn after one of the jurors died. Every twist in the path to the truth is riveting\u2014especially the final revelation, which puts all the others in the shade\u2014but the most important relationship is between the two investigators, one of whom harbors a secret the other can\u2019t imagine.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If everyone in Clifton County knows everyone else, that may be because half the people in North Falls, one of the county\u2019s four cities, are named Clifton. Det. Allison Vickery doesn\u2019t turn up for the funeral of acting sheriff Emmy Clifton\u2019s mother, Myrna Joy Clifton, first because she\u2019s fleeing her abusive husband, Bill Garrison, then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}