Miner's Kill: 3 (Jack Leclere)

Jack LeClere is a cop dodging bullets in what could best be described as friendly fire. He took out the serial killer who murdered his parents and half of New Rhodes paid the price. Not to mention the rioting that gripped the city over the Julia Mae Jefferson murder his last big case. So in the spirit of the aftermath his superiors have called into question every sliver of his conduct. Jack is wealthy; he doesnt need to be a detective and the top brass are implying that maybe if he followed procedure like his livelihood depended on it he wouldnt want to be a cop. Leonard Beloit is a pillar of the community and a very wealthy man also which does him no good when Jack gets called to the Grand Royal Theater to find him on the floor his chest pierced with a gem pickaxe. Jacks search for the person who killed Beloit starts with the search for the person who was Beloit. As he speaks with Beloits wife and daughter and digs even further Jack finds a lustful vagrant degenerate that would be unrecognizable in the society pages. Gangs petty crimes and not-so-petty crimes seem to be Beloits off-hours pastime. None of this would call for Beloits death but Jack will keep digging and soon realize he is peeling into the rot of the onion of New Rhodes high society of which he is a reluctant member. The deeper he gets investigating what his peers are doing in the shadows the more they investigate him asking in their own way whether hell stop playing cop and do something with the vast inheritance he rarely uses and claims to never want. Beloits exploits take a very dangerous turn in the form of a conspiracy to transport toxic chemicals through the Adirondacks; it may be that the smoking gun is wrapped up in a smokestack. The case to find and hold accountable Beloits killer will pit him against not only the killer but a version of himself that it seems everyone around him sees that perhaps he cant remain blind to anymore.