When small-town librarian Leo Finch finds his old friend murdered beside a strange quartz prism, he’s pulled into a decades-old mystery tied to a mad physicist’s "truth-revealing" machine. Teaming with a sardonic deputy, Leo uncovers a town’s buried sin—a covered-up boy’s death that still poisons the powerful families of Bison Creek. Pursued by a killer protecting a legacy of lies, Leo must decide if exposing the brutal, cutting truth is worth the cost, or if some human frailties are better left in the gentle dark. A witty, humane crime tale where every clue has a hidden edge.
