Broken Ground

Jay Porter Takes on the Brutality of Small-town Political Power and Insatiable Greed

At an AA meeting, handyman and part-time investigator Jay Porter meets a recovering addict who needs his help. In the midst of another grueling northern New Hampshire winter, Amy Lupus younger sister, Emily, has gone missing from the Coos County Center, the newly opened rehab run by Jays old nemeses, Adam and Michael Lombardi.

As Jay begins looking into Emilys disappearance, he finds that all who knew Emily swear that shes never used drugs. Shes a straight shooter and an intern at a newspaper investigating the Center and the horrendous secret hidden in itor beneath it.

When Jay learns of a missing hard drive, he is flung back to five years ago when his own junkie brother, Chris, found a hard drive belonging to Lombardi Construction. For years Jay assumed that the much-sought-after hard drive contained incriminating photos of Adam and Michaels father, which contributed to Chris death. But now he believes the hard drive harbored a secret far more sinister, which the missing Lupus sister may have unwittingly discovered.

The deeper Jay digs, the more poisoned the ground gets, and the two cases become one, yielding a toxic truth with local falloutand far-reaching ramifications.

Perfect for Fans of Dennis Lehane

While all of the novels in the Jay Porter Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:

Lamentation
December Boys
Give Up the Dead
Broken Ground
Rag and Bone See more