Finalist for Crime Writers of Canada's 2024 award of excellence for Best Crime First Novel!

One deadly explosion. One burned body. One teenaged suspect.

One week-long race for Gabrieli to save his kid brother’s neck.

Former lawyer turned part-time investigator Gabe Gabrieli visits a small resort town to fulfill a promise. He plans to check in, attend a christening, check out. Two days max.

But when police name his kid brother as their prime suspect in a gruesome killing on a nearby mountain, Gabe leaps into a desperate search for the truth – a week-long battle that pits him against deceptive locals, a mountain’s secrets, and a cunning killer who ultimately threatens to destroy all Gabe cares about and pushes him to his breaking point.