Down the River Unto the Sea

Winner of the RBA Prize for Crime Writing Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD''s finest investigators until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault, a charge that l ...

Winner of the RBA Prize for Crime Writing Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD''s finest investigators until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault, a charge that lands him in the notorious Rikers Island prison.A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. When he receives a card in the mail from the woman who admits she was paid by someone in the NYPD to frame him all those years ago, King realises that he has no choice but to take his own case: figuring out who on the force wanted him dispose