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    "description": "<p>Clay Edison is busy. He&rsquo;s solved a decades-old crime and redeemed an innocent man, earning himself a suspension in the process. Things are getting serious with his girlfriend. Plus his brother&rsquo;s fresh out of prison, bringing with him a whole new set of complications.<br /> <br /> Then the phone rings in the dead of night.<br /> <br /> A wild party in a gentrifying East Bay neighborhood. A heated argument that spills into the street. Gunshots. Chaos.<br /> <br /> For Clay and his fellow coroners, it&rsquo;s the start of a long night and the first of many to come. The victims keep piling up. What begins as a community tragedy soon becomes lurid fodder for social media.<br /> <br /> Then the smoke clears and the real mystery emerges&mdash;one victim&rsquo;s death doesn&rsquo;t match the others. Brutalized and abandoned, stripped of ID, and left to die: She is Jane Doe, a human question mark. And it falls to Clay to give her a name and a voice.<br /> <br /> Haunted by the cruelty of her death, he embarks upon a journey into the bizarre, entering a hidden world where innocence and perversity meet and mingle. There, his relentless pursuit of the truth opens the gateway to a dark and baffling past&mdash;and brings him right into the line of fire.</p>",
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