James
Queally

After years spent reporting on cops in New Jersey's largest city, journalist-turned-P.I. Russell Avery finds himself on the wrong side of the badges he used to rely on when he begins investigating the police killing of a young Black man, learning the truth depends on where you're standing.

“This scalding expose of human failures, in which friendships go tragically sour, powerfully updates Raymond Chandler's mean streets. Queally is definitely a writer to watch.”

— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

When an old enemy asks Russell to look into an arson-murder case that has haunted Newark for decades, the ex-reporter uncovers a scandal that could upend countless lives and change the city's political future.

“James Queally takes the skills he has acquired as an award-winning journalist and puts them to devastating use as an author.”

— S.A. Cosby, bestselling author of Blacktop Wasteland, Razorblade Tears, All The Sinners Bleed and King Of Ashes

Eventually, you write your last story. After walking away from the profession he loves that never loved him back, Russell goes on the hunt for his missing mentor and comes face-to-face with the fact that there may be no room for him in a post-fact America. What good is the truth against an enemy that chooses its own reality?

“A relentless thriller that doesn't let go until the final page.”

— Mystery Tribune