Broken Ground eBook

Perfect for readers who appreciate the novels of Dennis Lehane with deeply flawed characters struggling to walk the righteous path.

At an AA meeting, handyman and part-time investigator Jay Porter meets a recovering addict who needs his help. In the midst of another grueling northern New Hampshire winter, Amy Lupus younger sister, Emily, has gone missing from the Coos County Center, the newly opened rehab run by Jays old nemeses, Adam and Michael Lombardi. As Jay begins looking into Emilys disappearance, he finds that all who knew Emily swear that shes never used drugs. Shes a straight shooter and an intern at a newspaper investigating the Center and the horrendous secret hidden in itor beneath it.

When Jay learns of a missing hard drive, he is flung back to five years ago when his own junkie brother, Chris, found a hard drive belonging to Lombardi Construction. For years Jay assumed that the much-sought-after hard drive contained incriminating photos of Adam and Michaels father, which contributed to Chris death. But now he believes that hard drive may have harbored a secret far more sinister, which the missing Lupus sister may have unwittingly discovered. The deeper Jay digs, the more poisoned the ground gets, and the two cases become one, yielding a toxic truth with local falloutand far-reaching ramifications.