Would you risk your life to save a family member even if you knew they had committed a serious crime?

What do a daring prison escape and a shocking lynching have in common? Only the inimitable John Jordan can figure it out!

John Jordan searches for an escaped prisoner, investigates a shocking murder, and confronts a sadist forcing his victims to violate themselves—but as he closes in on the criminal, a harrowing river rescue may take more than the depleted detective has left to give.

"Lister deftly juggles multiple plot lines in his sixth John Jordan novel" - Publisher's Weekly

"Lister's sixth John Jordan novel offers the soulful and intuitive sleuth a barrage of crimes. Lister's impoverished, rural setting is deeply evocative of a Florida disappearing under the barrage of development" - Booklist