The Marked Husband
A politician's brutal death. A playing card pressed to his bloodied face. A murder with roots that run deep.
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When George Steele—populist, provocateur, mayoral candidate—is beaten to death on a quiet country lane as his wife looks on in horror, DS Kat Ballantyne knows this killing was personal. George is divisive, certainly, but who hated him enough to kill?
As Kat peels back the dead man's carefully constructed public image, she uncovers decades of violence, fraud and betrayal—and a growing list of people with reason to want George Steele dead. The murder trail leads from the corridors of power to the darkest corners of the city's past. And everyone connected to George, it seems, has something to hide.
And the Steele case isn't the only secret threatening to destroy everything Kat has built. Her covert investigation into a case in her own past is leading somewhere she never expected. And the truth, when it comes, may be worse than she can bear.