A Killing in Zion: A Mystery: 2 (An Art Oveson Mystery 2)

AN ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL. In the scorching drought-plagued summer of 1934 as wildfires burn across Utah Detective Lieutenant Art Oveson faces a unique assignment. Salt Lake Citys mayor has tapped him to revive the Anti-Polygamy Squad a unit formed years earlier for the purpose of driving out the citys plural marriage zealots. As a Mormon ashamed of his own ancestors part in the churchs polygamist past Art is eager to do his part to flush out the extremists.. Then a local polygamist prophet is brutally murdered and a shell-shocked young girl is found at the scene of the crime. Is she the victims daughter a child bride or the murderer herself? Art attempts to investigate the death as well as discover her identity despite a wall of silence put up by polygamists who would rather mete out their own rough justice. Soon however Art discovers that the sect has much more to hide than he thought.. Historian and Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of City of Saints Andrew Hunt returns to 1930s Salt Lake City in this deeply researched mystery. A Killing in Zion portrays a city and a religion struggling to grow and shake off a notorious history that has not yet become a thing of the past.