David Baldacci has published many action novels, in various series. This is the fourth work featuring Amos Decker as the protagonist.
While vacationing in rural Pennsylvania, Amos Decker and FBI colleague Alex Jamison visit Alex's sister. When Decker stumbles upon a murder scene, he is unable to tear himself away from his detective side. Two men are found murdered in a presumed abandoned house. This is not the first murder to occur lately in Baronville, which has seen a half-dozen bodies pile up in recent months.
While Jamison wants to let the local police handle things, Decker drags her into the middle of the investigation. It seems someone doesn't want them snooping around, and they find themselves thrust into a situation where Decker's memory has dark spots. When tragedy strikes Jamison's family, she wants out of the investigation, but Decker is determined to get to the bottom of everything that's going on, including trying to learn more about the successor to the Baron family, from which Baronville gets its name.
As Decker investigates, the dire consequences of the opioid crisis, which is affecting populations across the country, come to light. Decker spots a connection between the drug deaths in Baronville and someone in town and will stop at nothing to uncover the whole picture.
The language is clean with no indecent settings or descriptions.