Publisher's Synopsis
One June night, in a town gripped by a heat wave, a man is forced off the road and into the river. Robert Bell, a local journalist, investigates the mysterious death. Meanwhile, simmering racial tensions in the town threaten to boil over, with local Serbian immigrants becoming targets for blame. Robert's brother, Frank, is the investigating police officer, but there's long been a gulf between them, and Robert's in love with Frank's wife Irene. Their affair continues through the stifling heat until one morning Irene vanishes. Is her disappearance somehow linked to the young man's death? Storm clouds gather as Robert is drawn ever deeper into the hunt for a murderer - and finds out some uncomfortable truths about his seemingly quiet community.
