The past is never past on the mean streets of Phoenix, especially when the mercury hits a hundred and it's only April. Half a century 
after the unsolved murder of an FBI agent, the missing badge is found on the body of a dead transient. The case seems a perfect fit for
 David Mapstone, history professor turned Maricopa County deputy sheriff. That is, if he can get past a forced partnership with rival 
cold-case expert Sgt. Kate Vare and the FBI's strange stonewalling about the details of the agent's killing.
To complicate matters, there are the crimes making history today, like the arrest of Russian mafia members in a multimillion-dollar fraud case. 
David's wife, Lindsey, star of the sheriff's Cybercrimes Bureau, was on the task force that busted the case wide open. But her triumph is 
short-lived when a hit in Scottsdale leaves three task-force members dead. Lindsey's life in danger, Sheriff Peralta stashes Lindsey and
 David in a safe house. That doesn't get the good "History Shamus" off the hook, though, as Sheriff Peralta inexplicably demands that 
David solve the cold case.
The trail will take Mapstone to the most forlorn parts of Phoenix, as well as to San Francisco and picturesque southern Arizona, as he
 slowly uncovers the bloody secrets surrounding the mysterious FBI badge. He's got the brains and the leads. Now all he and Lindsey have
 to do is live long enough to bring justice to a fifty-year-old crime.
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