Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in
college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson
of a mobster and she knows that someday this crime will catch up to her.
Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive
ex-husband. When Diana's husband finds her, and Casey herself is
attacked shortly after, Casey knows it's time for the two of them to
disappear again.
Diana has heard of a town made for people like her, a town that takes in
people on the run who want to shed their old lives. You must apply to
live in Rockton and if you're accepted, it means walking away entirely
from your old life, and living off the grid in the wilds of Canada: no
cell phones, no Internet, no mail, no computers, very little
electricity, and no way of getting in or out without the town council's
approval. As a murderer, Casey isn't a good candidate, but she has
something they want: She's a homicide detective, and Rockton has just
had its first real murder. She and Diana are in. However, soon after
arriving, Casey realizes that the identity of a murderer isn't the only
secret Rockton is hiding--in fact, she starts to wonder if she and Diana
might be in even more danger in Rockton than they were in their old
lives.
An edgy, gripping crime novel from bestselling urban fantasy writer
Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost boldly announces a major new player
in the crime fiction world.
