On Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid's thirty-second birthday,

she gets an unusual gift: a homicide call out. The crime scene: the

elite Hillside neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. The victim: hotshot

investigative reporter Percy Crenshaw, who has been bludgeoned to death

in his carport. Tensions in the city have been running high. The previous

week, a police officer shot and killed an unarmed mother of two in what

he claims was self-defense; in the aftermath, protestors have waged

increasingly agitated anti-police protests. Crenshaw's death, it seems,

is not unrelated: within a matter of hours, police arrest two young

men who appear to have embarked on a crime spree in the aftermath of

the protests. The case looks straightforward, especially when one of

the suspects confesses. But then the man recants, claiming coercive

police tactics, and Samantha finds herself digging for more evidence.

Following Crenshaw's steps, her search leads her through an elaborate

maze of connections between the city's drug trade and officers in the

bureau's north precinct.



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