Someone is trying to frame Chicago private investigator Dek Elstrom for murder in the latest intriguing mystery.
It's election season in corrupt Cook County, Illinois—where the dead vote on who lives and who dies.
A skeleton's hand spills out of an abandoned grain silo, aiming an axe at a candidate. A heavily-disguised woman hires PI Dek Elstrom to head west to find men with no pasts—and one with no present. While he's away, someone dead comes calling to frame him for murder.>br>
A sheriff's deputy wants Dek arrested. Someone else wants him dead. No one knows what the woman who hasn't spoken in decades wants.
And Dek Elstrom? He wants to stay alive.
