A Killing in Kansas — Jeffrey Tharp

MURDER DIVIDES A SMALL TOWN--AND ONE COP WALKS A FINE LINE....

The Kansas City vice squad has been hell for cop Johnny Branch. In sleepy Elk Rapids, he figures, the living will be easy.

But his hopes are shattered when a rich local businessman with a shadowy past is violently murdered. Johnny suddenly finds himself at odds with both his superiors and the powerful forces that run Elk Rapids. The police and the poll are eager to nail a former juvenile delinquent as the killer. But Johnny's gut tells him it's the wrong guy.

As the investigation only goes from bad, to worse, Johnny's life goes from worse to a living hell. But you can't keep a good cop down. Even when Johnny's taken off the case, he manages to dig up enough small-town corruption and vice to make Kansas City look downright pure