North of Grand: A Detective Red Shaw Novel - Detective Red Shaw, #2 - E-book - ePub

Young cyclist Zach Costa turns up dead outside the central transit station on a muggy August morning in Des Moines and the heat is on. Detective Edward "Red" Shaw and his partner, Phil Vega, look for the killer and find themselves probing the sometimes toxic, hyper-competitive world of amateur bicycle racing. The detectives are on the crime scene early but hardly at their best. Shaw is hobbled by a knee injury from his final confrontation with a murderous sociopath who almost killed him, and it's Vega's first day back after breaking his leg in a car wreck.
Costa died wearing cleated cycling shoes. Dried blood from a head wound and a trace of white powder near his feet tell the cops part of the story, and there's no sign of his vintage Schwinn racing bike. A simple robbery gone wrong? With the victim's body hidden in a storage locker? Who killed the cyclist, and why?The answers are somewhere in a tangled web of cryptic social media messaging, stolen property, drug trafficking, and murder.