The Dead Key

The Dead Key

<p><b><i>2014 Winner €" Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award €" Grand Prize and Mystery & Thriller Fiction Winner</i></b></p><p>It€s 1998, and for years the old First Bank of Cleveland has sat abandoned, perfectly preserved, its secrets only speculated on by the outside world. </p><p>Twenty years before, amid strange staff disappearances and allegations of fraud, panicked investors sold Cleveland€s largest bank in the middle of the night, locking out customers and employees, and thwarting a looming federal investigation. In the confusion that followed, the keys to the vault€s safe-deposit boxes were lost. </p><p>In the years since, Cleveland€s wealthy businessmen kept the truth buried in the abandoned high-rise. The ransacked offices and forgotten safe-deposit boxes remain locked in time, until young engineer Iris Latch stumbles upon them during a renovation survey. What begins as a welcome break from her cubicle becomes an obsession as Iris unravels the bank€s sordid past. With each haunting revelation, Iris follows the looming shadow of the past deeper into the vault€"and soon realizes that the key to the mystery comes at an astonishing price.</p>