Greenbough: A Complicity

by Richard A. Webster

Rochester’s last detective doubts that a city can commit homicide. That is until an investigative coordinator set to replace him bungles a case involving the death of a local author. From then on its all Theo, Detective James Theodorkakos, can do to keep the facts from unraveling into fiction. This much to him is Greenbough wrote historical fiction, the kind that wrenches the false fronts off houses and praises the skeletons that subsequently arise. Problem is no one in this upstate town recognizes this view of their city. Instead, they go on avoiding the growing problems of suburban flight and a fading inner-city behind a misguided attempt at pride. In a last attempt to save his spiraling hometown, Theo conspires with the dead author in a crime to rewrite history.

240 pages, Paperback

First published December 6, 2005