The blistering new Archie Sheridan thriller from the author of Evil at Heart Portland, Memorial Day, 1948. The river bursts its banks, sending a ten-foot wall of water crashing through Vanport, a predominantly black area of town. Vanport is wiped out; sixteen people killed. Many believed the number was much higher. In the present day it's rainy season. River levels are high when a woman walking her dog comes across the skeleton of a young black man, murdered over fifty years ago. Journalist, Susan Ward investigates. Meanwhile, Detective Archie Sheridan and his team have turned their attention to child-killer Ryan Motley, trained by the notorious Gretchen Lowell. The task force must pursue a series of mysterious clues from Gretchen, one of which leads to a Vanport flood survivor, who happens to be the grandfather of a murdered child. Then, when another child is found murdered, Archie's investigation takes on a new urgency. But it is the fifty-year-old Vanport conspiracy that…
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