Modern Gomorrah

The Millionaire Murders

New York City, 1880

In an era of industry, mystery, and glamor. All to be found is vice, corruption, and injustice.

Detective Charles Reed is new to the city, new to the badge, and desperate to prove he belongs among men who've already decided he doesn't. When a powerful industrialist is found butchered in his mansion, Reed is assigned the case as a chance to make his mark. But he's not working alone. Seasoned detective Lucas Briggs, a son of New York, takes Reed under his wing, guiding him through the dangerous dance of evidence, influence, and lies. The victims are New York's elite, industrialists, financiers, and social arbiters whose wealth and connections from Wall Street to Washington shape the rules the rest of the country must follow. Reed is hunting their killer, but in a city built on exploitation, the murders have become more than crimes; they are signs, carved in blood, of a world unraveling. Those at the top finally know fear, while those under them whisper of something larger. A reckoning by those who have long been ignored. The city listens, watches, and murmurs of justice denied for generations, a fury simmering in the gutters, ready to spill over. Reed set out to stop a murderer. Following Briggs' lead, he realizes this is bigger than a case, bigger than the law, and every choice may put him on the wrong side of a reckoning he cannot ignore.