Where the Hurt Is

<p><strong>Poignant and funny studded with characters who haunt your imagination long after you've read the final page. -Anne Hillerman <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Cave of Bones</em></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Oklahoma 1965. Justice has a color line.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Police Chief Emmett Hardy knows his town. He knows its loyalties its grudges and the things people prefer not to see. So when the body of a young Black woman is found dumped beside the railroad tracks-her throat cut her story erased-Hardy understands one thing immediately:</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Somebody expects this to disappear.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>State authorities move quickly too quickly pinning the crime on an easy suspect. Case closed. Problem solved. But Hardy isn't convinced. And the more he digs the clearer it becomes that the truth leads somewhere dangerous-toward men with power money and friends in high places.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In a town where silence is safer than justice Hardy must choose: protect his badge and what little peace Burr Oklahoma still has... or risk everything to expose a killer no one wants unmasked.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Gritty sharp and darkly humane </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Where the Hurt</em></strong><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </em><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Is</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> introduces Emmett Hardy-a flawed but relentless lawman navigating racism corruption and his own ghosts in a changing America.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Some wounds never heal. Some truths refuse to stay buried.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>For readers of Attica Locke and Walter Mosley this is Southern crime fiction with a conscience-and teeth.</span></p>