Bone factory
(Book)

Eliza Ochoa and Ike Horner are homicide detectives in Booth City, a deteriorating Rust Belt city in which hope is a forgotten concept. The latest victim is a hooker mutilated so badly that the usually savvy pair initially misses the obvious: the vic is a male. The investigation leads to Booth City's most influential family and its twisted, dilettante son, and it also forces Eliza to confront her father, a bent cop now serving time in the penitentiary. Ike is dealing with his own demons: diabetes, a bad ticker, and impending retirement, none of which he chooses to face. The more they investigate, the more they are drawn into the twisted world of drugs, fetishistic transsexuality, and murder as a release from boredom.