The town of Dust, Illinois is like so many small towns across America. It
is struggling to survive in a world where farming and small-town life is
slowly dying. To those who have discovered it, it is also a refuge, hidden
away from the world and a place of calm and peace. It's a place to start
over for many. All of that ends the morning the skeletons of children are
found at a construction site where new homes are being built.
Once the bodies are unearthed, all of the things that Dust had tried so hard
to keep hidden come bubbling to the surface. When it is discovered that a
serial killer has been living in their midst and that there are those who
harbored the secret of his deeds, the town begins to come apart at the
seams. What follows is a story featuring serial killers, accusations of
child molestation, drunkenness, a riot, two house explosions, an
assassination, shootings, a lynching, a broken marriage, hidden secrets, FBI
agents, a good cop from the big city, forensic men, landmines, a police
stand-off and a mass shooting. Set during the course of a
day, starting early in the morning and ending late at night and introducing
a wide variety of characters from the Mayor who harbors an intense secret to
the Chief of Police who is a man rebuilding his life after leaving Chicago,
Dust is the story of one town and the price it pays for hiding its head to
the horror that lurked right under their nose. A book that is
both a mystery, suspense thriller, crime story, social commentary and
character analysis, Dust is a compelling page-turner of a story, plunging
right into its sordid tale or murder and mayhem from the first few pages and
continuing at a breakneck pace throughout, to its literally explosive and
intense ending. Dust is the story of one day in one town and
shows exactly how the smallest of towns can harbor the biggest of secrets.
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