Blood on The Levee

Blood on the Levee

Myles Bishop swore he would never come back to East St. Louis.

Not after the department broke him. Not after his father died with nothing but bitterness and a stack of unpaid taxes. Not after he learned there was nothing left here worth saving.

Then his cousin Lamar turns up dead by the river, and the police call it another name added to a list nobody bothers to read anymore.

Myles knows better. He was a homicide detective once, before the badge cost him everything. He knows the difference between a street killing and a message. And Lamars death reads like a message.

The trail leads him into old deeds and older lies. Into a redevelopment deal built on land that was never supposed to be for sale. Into a pattern of forged signatures and vanished court records that stretches back further than Lamar could have known, back to a betrayal that started inside Myless own family.

The people protecting that secret have money, and they have patience. They have already killed once to keep the past buried. Myles is running out of both.

Blood on the Levee is a psychological suspense novel about the weight land carries when its stolen, and the weight silence carries when its kept too long. It is about a city that was never abandoned, only taken, and about a man who has to decide whether the truth is worth losing what little family he has left.

The river does not forget. Neither do the dead.

The Myles Bishop Files, Book One.