CLEAN HANDS A GUS ROURKE NOVEL: Book One of the Calder County Novels (The "CLEAN" SERIES - A GUS ROURKE SERIES of THE CALDER COUNTY NOVELS)

She built a life on knowing when to smile. It got her killed the night she decided to stop.Philanthropist Eleanor Grant is murdered at her own gala — and within the hour, the city has agreed on a tidy story: a burglary gone wrong. Detective Gus Rourke doesn't buy it. Colorblind, analog to the bone, and incapable of leaving a loose thread alone, he reads the staged scene in sixty seconds and starts pulling the one thread everyone wants left alone.It leads north — to a gray town the dead woman spent her life escaping, to a beloved old man no one will say a word against, and to a hundred-year-old network that washes the worst money in the state through its most trusted charities, and has never once been named.They have buried everyone who got this close. A boy. An accountant. A cop. Now they know Rourke's name — and his daughter's.He can't put them in a cage. So he'll do the one thing they've never survived.He'll say their name out loud.CLEAN HANDS is the first Gus Rourke novel — a propulsive, atmospheric crime thriller for readers of Michael Connelly, William Kent Krueger, and Greg Iles.📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3T4hHCW