A Killing in Zion A Mystery [Hardcover]

AN ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL

In the scorching, drought-plagued summer of 1934, as wildfires burn across Utah, Detective Lieutenant Art Oveson faces a unique assignment. Salt Lake City's mayor has tapped him to revive the Anti-Polygamy Squad, a unit formed years earlier for the purpose of driving out the city's plural marriage zealots. As a Mormon ashamed of his own ancestors' part in the church's polygamist past, Art is eager to do his part to flush out the extremists.

Then a local polygamist prophet is brutally murdered and a shell-shocked young girl is found at the scene of the crime. Is she the victim's daughter, a child bride, or the murderer herself? Art attempts to investigate the death, as well as discover her identity, despite a wall of silence put up by polygamists who would rather mete out their own rough justice. Soon, however, Art discovers that the sect has much more to hide than he thought.

Historian and Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author ofCity of SaintsAndrew Hunt returns to 1930s Salt Lake City in this deeply researched mystery.A Killing in Zionportrays a city and a religion struggling to grow and shake off a notorious history that has not yet become a thing of the past.

A Salt Lake City deputy sheriff investigates a polygamist sect only to get caught up in the murder of its leader, a self-proclaimed Mormon prophet.

Hunt's excellent second mystery featuring Art Oveson lives up to the promise of his Hillerman Prize-winning debut,City of Saints(2012) ... Readers will cheer a hero who is not only a fine policeman but also a family man with a strong moral compass. Publishers Weekly (starred review) on A Killing in Zion

History and mystery are well combined here. San Jose Mercury News

Some authors excel at crafting compelling historical fiction, others at building, brick-by-brick, gripping mystery/police procedural plots. Andrew Hunt is cl3©