Hidden graves : a Dek Ekstrom mystery
(Book)

It's election season in corrupt Cook County, Illinois--where the dead vote on who lives and who dies ... A skeleton's hand spills out of an abandoned grain silo, aiming an axe at the candidate for US senate. A heavily-disguised woman hires Chicago private investigator Dek Elstrom to head west to find men with no pasts--and one with no present. While he's away, someone dead comes calling to frame him for murder. A sheriff's deputy wants Dek arrested. Someone else wants him dead. No one knows what the woman who hasn't spoken in decades wants. And Dek Elstrom? He wants to stay alive.