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fficer Bobby Vargas and actress/waitress Arleen Brennan understand hopes-and-dreams, the bet-it-all kind that either propel you through the fire or burn you to death. At age thirteen a gruesome rape/murder rocked their lives and the unforgiving streets of Chicago's Four Corners. Now, twenty-nine years later, a dying Chicago newspaper plans a serial exposé on that "solved" case, threatening to implicate Bobby and his older brother, Ruben—a decorated detective, patron del barrio. The "exposé" will lead Arleen and the Vargas brothers down an increasingly twisted and terrifying path, where the sins of the past threaten to destroy what remains of the truth.

As readers and critics discovered in his first novel, Calumet City, Charlie Newton's Chicago is a landscape as brutal and poignant as any in modern crime fiction—a multi-faceted, shockingly violent labyrinth of gangland politics, political backstabbing, corporate malfeasance, and, possibly, hope.

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Doubleday hardcover (US), January 2012, ISBN: 978-0385534697
Doubleday ebook, January 2012, ASIN: B004S3H0V2