Russell Avery needs a story to tell.
The laid-off reporter turned private investigator is almost out of
clients after he stood up against the Newark police officers whose
problems he used to fix for a paycheck, exposing a scandal that left him
on the wrong side of one of those thin blue lines. Desperate for work,
Russell is as elated as he is skeptical when a detective shows up on his
doorstep, asking him to look into one of the Brick City's most haunting
mysteries: The Twilight Four killings.
The detective tells Russell a story almost too good to be true, but
maybe good enough to save his otherwise doomed journalism career if it
is true. Supposedly, the wrong man was convicted in the brutal
arson-murders that claimed four teenagers' lives, and if Russell finds
the right one, he'll have the inside track on the kind of story that
most reporters stake their careers on.
But things worth knowing don't make themselves easy to find. As Russell
starts untangling the complications of a decades-old murder that never
even had a crime scene to start from, he runs into opposition from City
Hall and finds himself drug into the middle of a contentious Mayoral
race that could impact Newark for generations to come, all while trying
to stay one step ahead of the real Twilight Four killer, who wouldn't
mind reducing Russell to ash.
In the sequel to the critically acclaimed LINE OF SIGHT, Russell Avery
must once again try to figure out the definition of justice in a city
where that term rarely applies to those who live below the poverty line.
