A gripping new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni. The Great Depression. High-level corruption. And a murder that’s about to become Seattle’s hottest mystery.It’s the kind of story that can make a reporter’s career.If he lives to write about it. Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice.Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William “Shoe” Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career.There’s been a murder at a social club on Profanity Hill—an underworld magnet for vice crimes only a privileged few can afford.The story is going to be front-page news, and Shoe is the first reporter on the scene. The victim, Frankie Ray, is a former prizefighter.His accused killer? Club owner and mobster George Miller, who claims he pulled the trigger in self-defense.Soon the whole town’s talking, and Shoe’s first homicide is fast becoming the Trial of the Century.The more Shoe digs, the more he’s convinced nothing is as it seems.Not with a tangle of conflicting stories, an unlikely motive, and witnesses like Ray’s girlfriend, a glamour girl whose pretty lips are sealed.For now. In a city steeped in Old West debauchery, Shoe’s following every lead to a very dangerous place—one that could bring him glory and fame or end his life.