Rachel Halliburton Knihy

Along the border of gentrifying Los Angeles, a teenage girl is found hanged at a construction site. Homicide detective Elouise Lou Norton's partner assumes it's a suicide. Lou isn't buying the easy explanation. For one thing, the site is owned by millionaire Napoleon Crase, the man who may have murdered Lou's sister thirty years ago.

Lou and her partner take on the task of informing a mother that her daughter has died. The girl's death fits a pattern: dancers, artists, honors scholars, gone missing in the same district, the one Lou attended not so long ago, this case is personal, and it's only a matter of time before the killer comes after Lou herself.