A GRAY CADAVEROUS DAWN

Dave Beckett chases a killer long hidden from the law.

Veteran homicide detective Dave Beckett has spent years working the cases nobody wants. He’s the Bone Dick. He handles the bones pulled from the desert, murders long forgotten by everyone but the dead. When a high-profile trial threatens to end his career—and his marriage—Beckett makes one last decision that will haunt him forever: he steps outside the lines.

What begins as courtroom testimony spirals into a relentless hunt through Southern California’s underbelly, from union offices and courthouse hallways to remote desert shacks where bodies are left to vanish. When a missing woman’s trail collides with a brutal murder in the Mojave Desert, Beckett uncovers something far more dangerous than a lone killer hiding in plain sight.

Hard-edged, unflinching, and brutally authentic, this Putnam's latest delivers a blistering look at policing in 1983—where justice is never clean, truth is never safe, and the desert remembers everything.

In a world where everyone has an angle, the most dangerous thing is doing the right thing.