Someone is going to die on Highway 80.
Nate Brennan is sent to Selma, Alabama, for a simple assignment: profile the city’s beloved district attorney. Raymond Gaines is charismatic, untouchable, and being groomed for a higher office. Everyone loves him. Every article about him reads as if he wrote it himself. Then Nate meets the woman with the filing cabinet.
Three years of evidence. A private prison corporation is buying judges. Exposed court cases disappearing from the public record. And a list of seventeen people who died in custody while the DA looked the other way.
One of those names is Nate’s mother. They told him she overdosed. They lied. She died of an untreated infection in a prison cell — and his own aunt took $40,000 to keep quiet. Now the profile is dead. The investigation is alive. And the people who built this system know he’s coming. His room has been searched. His photographer has been beaten. He’s been arrested on fabricated charges and fired from his paper. They want him to stop. He can’t. Because the conspiracy runs from the county courthouse to the U.S. Senate — and the truth about his mother is buried at the center of it. I
In Selma, the truth doesn’t set you free. It makes you a target.
A dark, propulsive thriller told in dual POV — the journalist hunting the truth and the powerful man trying to bury it. For fans of Freida McFadden, John Grisham, and Karin Slaughter.
From the author of The Riverside Files trilogy and Committed.
