Insurance investigator Sharon O’Mara’s job is sucking her soul dry. Now, after returning from Iraq and the Army’s military police, she is assigned to settle a life insurance claim – a claim that she is certain was not just an accident but a brutal murder.
When Detective Kevin Bryan, first saw the wet and bloody body of the man lying in the empty BART parking lot, he too was sure there was more to this killing than the .45 slug through the man’s heart. Homicide is never acceptable in the tony eastern suburban bastions of the rich and powerful of the San Francisco Bay area. Was it a land deal gone bad, or his high-end BMW, or his wealth, or his alcoholic wife that led to his murder? O’Mara and Bryan struggle with the insane thought that the man was killed to cover up a bigger crime, a crime of shocking and lurid vengeance and visceral hate . . .