After his wife dies, Dr. Ike Lowe relocates from the Chicago suburbs to his hometown in central Illinois to try and kick-start his next act. He stumbles upon a murder of one of his high school soccer teammates and discovers a string of brutal killings that shakes him out of his routine and leads him to question his community, his teammates, and himself. In this small town mystery thriller, Ike Lowe joins forces with FBI Agent Asteria Papadopoulos to investigate a series of deaths of African American women. In the course of the investigation, Ike confronts ghosts from his past, and at every turn is reminded that in the Land of Lincoln, history runs deep. The clues all point to a player from Ike’s high school soccer team: the main suspects are five of his best friends . . . and Ike himself. As if his life isn’t complicated enough, the murderer is trying to frame Ike for the most recent killing. Can he escape the labyrinth of the past to avoid arrest? Or, like a Greek tragedy, will it be his fate to take the fall? Can Ike stay in the game long enough to find the murderer before more bodies are buried?

ISBN: 9798992137903