The Conspiracy of Silence

From the Editors' Choice Award-winning poet and the 2015 Book Award finalist:

A "hypnotic" political thriller with an epic courtroom showdown...

The conscience of a town steeped in sexism, vanity, and duplicity is pricked by the shocking murder of California's First Lady, Susan Whitaker. The shock is transformed into a steamy, seductive scandal when someone unearths the damning secret that Susan Whitaker, in fact, did not exist.

But that's before the "secret lover/blackmailer" theory concocted by the police leads to the indictment of Hollywood's most influential black celebrity. Now nothing's the same again...

Little does anyone realize that this colossal misstep is a mere curtain raiser to a chilling world of ugly skeletons dating back to the assassination of a U.S. senator in a Washington hotel sauna, skeletons connected to riveting sex scandals in high places, skeletons the FBI and political kingmakers will kill for...