City of Saints: A Mystery: 1 (An Art Oveson Mystery 1)

Winner of the 2011 Hillerman Prize Andrew Hunts City of Saints is an engaging historical mystery set in 1930s Salt Lake City starring a newly-minted Mormon lawman. To the outside observer Salt Lake City might seem to be the squeaky-clean City of Saints―its nickname since Mormon pioneers first arrived. Its wide roads huge Mormon temple topped by a horn-blowing angel and orderly neighborhoods give it the appearance of the ideal American city but looks can be deceiving.. When a beautiful socialite turns up dead Art Oveson a twenty-something husband father and devout Mormon just getting his start as a sheriffs deputy finds himself thrust into the role of detective. With his partner a foul-mouthed former strikebreaker he begins to pursue the murderer―or murderers. His search takes him into the underbelly of Salt Lake City a place rife with blackmail corruption and death.. Based on a true yet largely forgotten murder that once captivated the nation but still remains unsolved eighty years later City of Saints reveals a darker picture of the Mormon capital than you ever expected.