Dave Zeltserman's blockbuster crime novel Small Crimes instantaneously marked the arrival of a powerful new voice and landed him as one of National Public Radio's top 5 mystery writers of 2008 alongside Stieg Larsson and Friedrich Walser.  Now the Newton-based writer returns with a tale so harrowing it places him alongside contemporary masters Jim Crais and James Ellroy as among the few great writers whose thrilling noirish tales can be called "beautiful" (The Washington Post).