Dr. Robert E. Sylvester

Emerson Sinclare is a detective of the Holy CityCharleston, South Carolina, known as one of the first cities in America. It is steeped in tradition, with family names that go back before the Revolutionary War. Even today, the markers of history can still be found on every street corner. But hidden beneath the citys southern roots and hospitality lies a different storyone of crime, as might be found in any other twenty-first-century city in America.

Sinclare is never lacking in cases. Recently a young girl jumped off the citys famous bridge. Another young man was found with his throat slit. And then theres the still unsolved murder of Sinclares own wife. This last one haunts him, but he continues to hunt the criminals of his city with no mercy, following his own rules and using instinct to understand the criminal mind.

For Sinclare, there is no class distinction; everyone is suspect when it comes to murder. Hell need all his knowledge of human nature to solve this newest murder. But things get personal as Sinclare suspects a recent death is somehow related to his wifes cold case. Even in the Holy City, evil abounds. Power and greed will shake Charleston to its core.