B. J Smith
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A brutal crime in the woods of southern Iowa has deadly repercussions years later in the state's capital city, where a string of gruesome murders tests the considerable skills of Detective Edward "Red" Shaw.Shaw had seen a lot of nasty business in his time with Des Moines PD, but the grisly slashing of an old man one night on the street was among the worst. The victim had been horribly mutilated, a crude crossword puzzle grid slashed into his skin...
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Young cyclist Zach Costa turns up dead outside the central transit station on a muggy August morning in Des Moines and the heat is on. Detective Edward "Red" Shaw and his partner, Phil Vega, look for the killer and find themselves probing the sometimes toxic, hyper-competitive world of amateur bicycle racing. The detectives are on the crime scene early but hardly at their best. Shaw is hobbled by a knee injury from his final confrontation with a murderous...