City of Saints A Mystery [Hardcover]

To the outside observer, Salt Lake City might seem to be the squeaky-clean City of Saints ???its nickname since Mormon pioneers first arrived. Its wide roads, huge Mormon temple topped by a horn-blowing angel, and orderly neighborhoods give it the appearance of the ideal American city, but looks can be deceiving.

When a beautiful socialite turns up dead, Art Oveson, a twenty-something husband, father, and devout Mormon just getting his start as a sheriff's deputy, finds himself thrust into the role of detective. With his partner, a foul-mouthed former strikebreaker, he begins to pursue the murderer???or murderers. His search takes him into the underbelly of Salt Lake City, a place rife with blackmail, corruption, and death.

Based on a true yet largely forgotten murder that once captivated the nation but still remains unsolved eighty years later,City of Saintsreveals a darker picture of the Mormon capital than you ever expected.

???Andrew Hunt makes a hell of an impressive debut withCity of Saints. Art Oveson is a truly unique character on the crime fiction landscape, a young, inexperienced Mormon lawman headed down streets no one would ever suspect were so mean. The Utah landscape is rugged and beautiful and the 1930s setting make this novel an irresistible read. Think a Black Mask classic directed by John Sayles and you'll get the idea.??? ???Ace Atkins,??New York Times??bestselling author of??The Lost Ones

???City of Saintsis the best debut novel you'll read this year, maybe any year. It's got everything a great crime novel should have: a complicated mystery, a protagonist you root for, a place and time beautifully evoked, and an emotional intensity that often leaves you breathless. His first time at bat, Andrew Hunt has hit one way out of the ballpark.??? ???William Kent Krueger, New York Times-bestselling author of Northwest Angle

???City of Saintsis a terrific detective story set in Salt Lake City l#Ÿ