The Night Season (Paperback, Export ed)

This is 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 just might get Archie and Susan killed. If the floodwaters don't get them first...