A Death in Dogtown

Nothing ever happens in Dogtown …

The people here—lost souls, all—go through the motions of their days, living in tents, scrounging for food and cash.

Shaw is one of them, no better than anyone else. No better than Seph, who used to hook on the street and shoot up heroin … or Dirty Bob, philosopher-cynic… or Dax, who lords it over the tent city like an angry tin god.

Then a woman named Lily turns up dead in her tent with a knife in her back—murdered in circumstances that make it an impossib...