The Wolf of Two Rivers

Della Marsh has been the night dispatcher in Two Rivers for eleven years. She knows the VINs, the call signs, the way the river sounds when it's angry. When a semi trailer is pulled out of the shallows with a body inside and no plates, the state police call it drugs and leave by dinner. Della knows the trailer. She's dispatched its VIN twice this month, and the driver was a local kid with a locker. She starts pulling records the way her father taught her — patiently, on paper, in order — and the paper leads her to a capo named Tomás Ochoa, a state trooper with something to hide, and a deal neither of them should make. She is going to catch a cop. She is going to do it with a headset, a roll of wire, and the whole river behind her.