She's hated by the police. Blackballed by her newspaper. And in the crosshairs of a monstrous killer.
L.A. 1947. The body is posed, brutalized... and a sure-fire way for reporter Ida Bly to get back her spot on the front pages.

Willing to do anything to stay ahead of the police and her fellow reporters, the hunt for a killer warps into an obsession to give a dead woman back her name. Rolling through the rich hills of Beverly Park down to the dead-end asphalt of Skid Row, the story drags Ida through the life of a lost young woman and the man who destroyed her. But can she stay one step ahead of a vicious killer and the power he wields over a terrified city?