The Ambitious City

As if a local biker war isn't enough -- seven shrink-wrapped corpses found buried between the barns on a nearby farm -- Detective Superintendent MacNeice receives a desperate phone call from his old friend, the mayor of Dundurn. Dredging is nearly completed on the ambitious waterfront project the mayor hopes will revive his rust belt of a city, but the dredgers have turned up six more bodies at the bottom of the lake, and two of them encased in concrete are fairly fresh. With the body count rising, the usually super-competent MacNeice feels deeply unsettled by the connections he begins to uncover between the biker wars and the US and Canadian concrete companies who've won the bid to help build the mayor's dream.