The horrors of the past are terrifyingly brought into the present in Pete Decker's thirteenth thriller of the series

America's most acclaimed crime writer and winner of the 1998 CWA/Macallan Gold Dagger returns to Louisiana with his great detective, Dave Robicheaux

The tenth Robicheaux mystery from the bestselling and Edgar Award- winning author.

As a young, idealistic lawyer during the last terrible months of the Second World War, David Dubin was sent to the European Front - ostensibly to bring charges against a brave American hero, Robert Martin. But as Dubin learns more about Martin and the demons possessing him, he finds himself falling in love with Martin's enigmatic ex-mistress.

This mystery starts with the murder of an attractive woman during heated local elections. A chief deputy prosecuting attorney is charged with solving the murder, and then finds himself accused of it. Other work by the author includes The Burden of Proof and Pleading Guilty .

The sequel to Presumed Innocent , in which the same main character appears. Alejandro Sandy Stern, the most celebrated defence lawyer in the mid western city where he lives, comes home from a business trip to find that Clara, his wife of 30 years, has committed suicide.