FAST BURN

Eight years ago, auto worker Eddie Armstrong was gunned down in a Detroit parking lot. The case went cold. The cops moved on. His widow never did.

Now she wants answers, and she's hired private investigator John Rockne to find them.

Rockne expects a routine investigation into an old murder. What he finds instead is a photograph hidden in a rusted Buick, a beautiful woman who died of an overdose, and a trail that leads from Detroit's abandoned factories to the polished offices of City Hall.

The...