Jack Fredrickson Knihy

Someone is trying to frame Chicago private investigator Dek Elstrom for murder in the latest intriguing mystery. It's election season in corrupt Cook County, Illinois - where the dead vote on who lives and who dies.A skeleton's hand spills out of an abandoned grain silo, aiming an axe at a candidate. A heavily-disguised woman hires PI Dek Elstrom to head west to find men with no pasts - and one with no present. While he's away, someone dead comes calling to frame him for murder.A sheriff's deputy wants Dek arrested. Someone else wants him dead. No one knows what the woman who hasn't spoken in decades wants.And Dek Elstrom? He wants to stay alive.

When he's offered an exorbitant fee to photograph a murder scene, PI Dek Elstrom doesn't ask too many questions. But his photos reveal something surprising: there's a witness to the murder, a tagger who's returned to the scene to paint what he saw. What is it the mysterious graffiti artist wants Elstrom to notice?

Exposing a botched murder investigation has left Milo Rigg's reputation and career as a crime-reporting journalist in tatters. But then a second case turns up months later, with disturbing similarities. Are the two cases linked, and could this be Milo's chance to right the wrongs of the past and uncover the identity of a ruthless serial killer?

Men are dying in Chicago. Rich men, powerful men, men who control the city. Dek Elstrom's ex-father-in-law, a major player in everything Chicago, is likely to be one of them. Dek's ex-wife persuades him to investigate, and Dek quickly learns that the man knows plenty - but will reveal nothing. Is he about to become a victim ... or is he the killer?