New York, NY: Viking Books (2014)

When the teenage daughter of a powerful Washington, D.C., judge is found dead, three local black kids are arrested for her murder–but reporter Sully Carter suspects theres more to the case. From the citys grittiest backstreets to the elegant halls of power, wry yet wounded Sully pursues a string of cold cases, all the while fighting against pressure from government officials, police, suspicious locals, and his own bosses at the newspaper. Based on the real-life 1990s Princeton Place murders, Neely Tuckers debut novel is a pitch-perfect rendering of a fast-paced newsroom and a layered, edge-of-your-seat mystery sure to please fans of Elmore Leonard and George Pelecanos.