The novel "finds Hanrahan, a former New York City homicide cop, settling into his new gig as chief of police in East Auberley, a (relatively) sleepy college town in Massachusetts. When a philosophy professor at Sloane University dies, an apparent suicide, Chess has questions; when another dead body turns up, with a possible connection to the first victim, he thinks he knows some of the answers"--Booklist.

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