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A reckoning with the persistence of bad in post-Civil Battle Atlanta. After going out of Atlanta in disgrace three years before, detective Thomas Canby is called back to the city on the eve of Atlanta's 1881 International Natural cotton Exposition to spouse with Atlanta's first African American police officer, Cyrus Underwood. The truth they're given is chilling: a serial murderer who appears to be violently concentrating on Atlanta's wealthiest dark business owners. The killer's method is both odd and unusually gruesome. On each victim's mutilated body is inscribed a letter of the alphabet, beginning with "M." The oligarchy of Atlanta's most prominent white businessmen - the same men who ran Canby out of town, known more openly before Reconstruction as "the Band" - is stressed to resolve the murders before they lose the money they've invested in both the exposition and the city's industrialization, even if quality comes at the trouble of justice. After Canby's introduction the murders become progressively more disturbing and unpredictable, and his interference threatens to send the exploration rotating off in the incorrect course. As the toll of innocent subjects increases, Canby must face down enduring racism and his own prejudices to see plainly the source of these bloody crimes. In the meantime, if they can reestablish his reputation, he could win back the woman he is in love with. With scrupulous attention to historical details, Edgar Prize finalist Matthew Guinn attracts listeners into a vortex of tense, atmospheric storytelling, confronting the sins and anxieties of both old South and new.
