"John McMahon is one of those rare writers who seem to have sprung out of nowhere. races headlong toward an incendiary and life-altering showdown..
Risking everything to unravel the puzzle even as he fights off his own demons, P.
T. uncovers something even deeper beneath the boy\'s murder--a conspiracy leading all the way back to the time of the Civil War. realizes he might have killed the top suspect of this horrific crime.
Amid rising racial tension and media scrutiny, P.
T. and his partner, Remy, begin to suspect the murder is connected to a local arson and the lynching of a teenage boy, P.
T.
As P.
T.
The next morning he gets called to the scene of his newest murder case, and is stunned to arrive at the house of a dead man, the very man he beat up the night before.
But when the former rising star of the Mason Falls, Georgia, police force decides to help out a woman by giving her abusive boyfriend a taste of his own medicine, he might have crossed a line.
Marsh can\'t see the line between bold moves and disastrous decisions.
Marsh in a swift and bruising debut where Elmore Leonard\'s staccato prose meets Greg Iles\' Southern settings.
How can you solve a crime if you\'ve killed the prime suspect?Since the night his wife and son were killed in an accident, Detective P.
T.
His first novel, The Good Detective, which is pretty much perfect, features a decent if flawed hero battling personal troubles while occupied with a murder case of great consequence to his community."--New York Times Book ReviewIntroducing Detective P.
T. "John McMahon is one of those rare writers who seem to have sprung out of nowhere
