Every Secret Thing: A Ross Duncan Novel (Ross Duncan Novels)

The California Tule fog sits oppressively over the small town of Gentryville but it seems it has not deterred the antics of corrupt politicians, greedy developers and canny mobsters as they go about their business as usual. Duncan Ross, enroute to San Francisco and in town, is drawn to help Carmelita back home to her father after being stranded by her boyfriend, the boxer Joey Cosimo. Joey is manipulated through drugs by the local mayor and mobster, Tony Vargas. As Duncan slowly discovers the secrets of the town, he tries to stay alive and protect Carmelita and Joey but the body count increases as the stakes get higher. Mobsters from Detroit come into Gentryville to disrupt Vargas’ plans and to seek revenge from a past killing but as the violence mounts, Duncan finds himself at the centre of an even larger plan to usurp control of the Hetch Hetchy Water System. Underpinning this violence and crisp noir dialogue is the human tragedy borne of the desperate lives some people lead and the secrets they keep, with Duncan in his ever continuing quest to find the redemption he craves yet finding himself ever more deeply entrenched in the lawless killings of the competing mobsters and corrupt state enterprises.