The second book in the Raymond Mackey Mystery series by award-winning author Owen Thomas.

Mystery nests within mystery. Villainy secrets itself, burrowed within the corrupted hollows of polite society, biding its time. A popular Chicago restauranteur gunned down in his bedroom. A casino manager bludgeoned by his own employees and left to burn in a consuming fire. A police officer shot to death in the home of his widowed mother as she listens, bound and gagged, from her kitchen. Not cases Raymond Mackey cares anything about until a beautiful woman he doesn’t know asks for help finding an antique Russian nesting doll. Then those cases, two of them as cold as the brutal winter that grips Chicago and nearby Chandler like a vice, become impossible to avoid.