COURTESY OF A DEAD MAN

What happens when people are forced to deny who they are to survive?

Some lie. Some run.

And some kill.

When esteemed Professor Victor Grayson collapses at a Park Avenue dinner party, most folks suspect a heart attack. One doctor suspects murder. He calls Nathaniel Redding—New York City's first black detective sergeant.

New York’s high and mighty fear a scandal. They want the case closed—fast. Everette Carlisle makes the perfect suspect. A brilliant, difficult writer, he’s got a public grudge and a history that would make conviction easy.

Years ago, the two men were lovers at McAllister University. When scandal broke, Grayson saved himself. Carlisle took the fall, fled to Paris, and came back hungry, angry—and not quite whole.

Redding makes the arrest—then realizes he’s made a bad mistake—the kind men die for.

He does what he should’ve done: follow a murder trail that leads from Park Avenue to Harlem, into the shadows of a man's lost years in Paris, and down to Washington, D.C.

It turns out Grayson wasn't just a scholar polishing essays. He was sitting on a powder keg: financial fraud, missing evidence, and a blackmail note pointing to a secret he couldn't afford to let slip.

In the end, there's enough guilt to go around.

Only one person will take the fall.

Courtesy of a Dead Man.

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Language ‏: English • ISBN-10 :‎ 00000000 • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-00000000000