John McMahon (4)

Detective P.T. Marsh has been on a downward spiral since the deaths of his wife and son, mostly drinking his life away. Now he may have killed someone... He's just not sure because he can't remember much from the night before, only that he helped an exotic dancer by beating up her boyfriend. Now the boyfriend is dead and Marsh's fingerprints are all over the crime scene. And, it keeps getting worse - the murdered man may be the lead suspect in the case of a lynching of a young black boy...

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P. T. Marsh is a good detective, but he comes with a lot of baggage. His wife and son were killed in an accident a year ago, and he has turned into a heavy drinker. He is still a good cop, but it’s getting harder to be a good person sometimes. To help a stripper being abused by her boyfriend, he roughs up the boyfriend a bit. When that boyfriend is found dead the next day, and P. T. can’t quite remember what happened the night before; he gets nervous about what he might have done. This starts the beginning of a rather intriguing and complex journey, one that will involve an old conspiracy, racial hatred, abduction, and murder. Not everything P. T. does is by the book, but sometimes that is the only way any kind of justice is achieved. It’s a complicated tale, but one worth the read, even though not everything tied up neatly in a bow at the end. My favorite character? P. T.’s bulldog, who not only “talks” to P. T. in his head, but gives him pretty good advice.… (mere)