Art from Fatal Family Ties.
These mysteries, each a quest for personal and social justice, share key elements with Sara Paretsky’s Pay Dirt, from secrets about family landholdings tied to the racist violence of the Civil War to the revelations of historical records and from the horrors of the opioid epidemic to sleuths under threat and trailer-park life.
Every Cloak Rolled in Blood. By James Lee Burke. 2022. Simon & Schuster, $27 (9781982196592).
Though Burke’s protagonist, Aaron Broussard, this is also a tale about love, evil, and crimes against humanity and the planet.