Corruption Thriller

Reporter Sutton McPhee knows how to get a story - and this time she's taking her sleuthing skills to the scene to solve the murder of a top Senate aide. But during the investigation, there's another murder - the wife of a House of Representatives candidate. And her police source on the case has a problem or two with female reporters - and a problem or three with Sutton.

Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns: it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer, a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.

Special agent Kari Wheeler refuses to accept the hero label, even after receiving the FBI and the City of Philadelphia’s Medal of Bravery. She just wants to get back to work. Her new case has her investigating Cuthbert “Cuddy” Mullins, a self-described do-gooder who says he is changing the world for the glory of God. He’s accused of running the largest charity Ponzi scheme in the country.