From the acclaimed author of 'Primal Fear', a stunning new suspense epic of California corruption in the first half of the twentieth century.
She died as she had lived - quietly and alone. Or so it seemed . . .
The year is 1941. Verna Wilensky is found dead in her bath, apparently the lonely victim of a sad accident. Her life had seemed unremarkable. She had no survivors. But she had a bank account packed with almost $100,000. How could a woman like Verna have amassed such a fortune?
As Los Angeles police detective Zeke Bannon begins to investigate, he discovers a paper trail all the way to a bank in San Pietro, a town one hundred miles north of the city, a town once known as Eureka.
In its early days, Eureka was a bootlegger's paradise and a gangster's dream. Now it is the respectable, law-abiding town where Sheriff Thomas Culhane is launching his bid to be California's next governor. But as Bannon digs deeper into Wilensky's death, he unearths a decades-old secret that starts in a shoot-out, builds to a bloodbath, and could end up within the upper echelons of California's elite, forever changing the destiny of the state . . .
Eureka - where the truth is like gold-dust, where the Californian dream turns to deadly nightmare . . .
