Murder, D.C.
A Sully Carter Novel
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Publisher Description
Washington, D.C., reporter Sully Carter returns in a thrilling murder mystery of race, wealth, and corruption, by the author of The Ways of the Dead
When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.’s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter knows it’s time to start asking some serious questions—no matter what the consequences. With the police unable to find a lead and pressure mounting for Sully to abandon the investigation, he has a hunch that there is more to the case than a drug deal gone bad or a tale of family misfortune. Digging deeper, Sully finds that the real story stretches far beyond Billy and into D.C.’s most prominent social circles. An alcoholic still haunted from his years as a war correspondent in Bosnia, Sully now must strike a dangerous balance between D.C.’s two extremes—the city’s violent, desperate back streets and its highest corridors of power—while threatened by those who will stop at nothing to keep him from discovering the shocking truth.
The follow-up to last year’s acclaimed The Ways of the Dead, this gritty mystery showcases Tucker’s talent for spot-on dialogue, authentic characters, and complex narrative.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Tucker's disappointing second Sully Carter novel (after 2014's The Ways of the Dead), the hard-drinking Washington, D.C., journalist still recovering from injuries sustained while reporting overseas during the Bosnian War investigates the alleged murder of a young black man in a small park known as Frenchman's Bend: "a place where drugs and homicide are as common as rainfall." The deceased, Billy Ellison, was the last heir of one of the city's most prominent families. Given the lack of leads and Ellison's mother blaming the death on her son's involvement in the drug trade, everyone involved just wants the tragedy to go away. But when Carter, who is white, digs deeper maneuvering his way through a minefield of street thugs, crime lords, and morally bankrupt lawyers he stumbles across a dark secret with roots that stretch back generations. Spot-on dialogue and a vividly described setting compensate only in part for Carter's stock character and an underwhelming solution to the mystery.
