Flame Out

June Lyons, the former FBI-agent-turned-small-town-cop introduced in the acclaimed Ice Shear must solve two connected cases whose roots stretch back decades in timeand dangerously touch the lives of those closest to her.As a police officer in the rust belt town of Hopewell Falls, New York, June Lyons keeps an eye on the abandoned factories that line the Mohawk River. Spotting a slick of gasoline running across the parking lot of an old apparel factory, she quickly heads inside the building, where she discovers an unconscious woman too close to the flame. The fire destroys the building down to its sub-basements, and the badly burned woman June rescued is in a coma. No one knows who she is or how she got there.Thirty years ago, Junes father made a name for himself when he arrested the factorys owner, Bernie Mede, for killing his wife and child, though their bodies were never found. Sifting through the factorys ruins, June and her partner Dave Batko discover a womans body sealed in a barrel. Surely, its Luisa Mede and the case file can be closed. But the body isnt Bernies wife, its Daves mother, a troubled party-girl who disappeared when Dave was young.As June and her neighbors discover, beneath Hopewell Falls charming faade lies some unbearably ugly truthssecrets that are only beginning to surface. With the case growing more complex, she teams with FBI Special Agent Hale Bascom to find answersbefore everyone she loves, and the town itself, spin dangerously out of control.