The Detective Is Dead (Harpur and Iles Series #12)

"A tremendous writer. . . . Where else can you find a mystery series with as many layers of gorgeous stuff?"-Chicago Tribune

"The detective is dead" because the old process of justice doesn't work any more. No one, including Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur, would testify at the trial; Harpur refused to name his informant. The three murderers who were being tried are part of a savage underworld struggle for the lucrative domain of the late drug baron Kenward Knapp. The story opens...