Binding: Paperback
Description: From Peter Blauner the writer Dennis Lehane calls "one of the most consistently bracing and interesting voices in American crime literature" comes a new thriller about a lone young cop on the trail of a powerful killer determined not just to stop her but to make her pay In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later JT has risen to chief of police but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island along the Sunrise Highway and it's possible that his actions actually enabled a killer. That's when Lourdes Robles a relentless young Latina detective for the NYPD steps in to track the serial killer. She discovers a deep and sinister web of connections between the victims and some of the most powerful political figures in the region including JT himself. Now Lourdes not only has to catch a killer but maybe dismantle an entire system that's protected him possibly at the cost of her own life.
Title: Sunrise Highway
Author(s): Blauner Peter
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250117427
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/6/2019
Series: Lourdes Robles Novels