Faces of the Gone (Carter Ross Series #1)

Faces of the Gone by Brad Parks won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel and the Nero Award for Best American Mystery--it is the first book to receive both awards. Named to the year's best mystery debuts by the Chicago Sun-Times and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Investigative reporter Carter Ross finds himself with gruesome front-page news: four bodies in a vacant lot, each with a single bullet hole in the back of the head. In a haste to calm residents, local police leak a story to Carter's ...