Ain't Nothin' Personal

<h4><strong>A strong mystery that clearly shows some secrets like a few bodies can't stay buried. -<em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></h4><p>After a kidnap-for-hire plot results in the death of a young boy Burr police chief Emmett Hardy blames himself and has an alcohol-fueled breakdown. His life at a crossroads Hardy checks into the hospital for treatment only to discover upon his release that he's been suspended from duty. When a dying prisoner contacts him about a long-forgotten unsolved case Emmett-temporarily at loose ends-begins an informal investigation.</p><p>Soon he becomes a target of violence himself as his investigation becomes a murder probe implicating the most powerful men in town. Hardy is forced to relive one of the most traumatic events of his childhood and faces the possibility that members of his own family may have been involved in the crime.</p><p>Ultimately with Emmett's tenuous grasp on sobriety slipping and his moral foundation shifting beneath his feet the answer to the question Who do I trust? becomes a matter of life and death.</p>