<p>In the scorching, drought-plagued summer of 1934, as wildfires burn across Utah, Detective Lieutenant Art Oveson faces a unique assignment. Salt Lake City's mayor has tapped him to revive the Anti-Polygamy Squad, a unit formed years earlier for the purpose of driving out the city's &quot;plural marriage zealots.&quot; As a Mormon ashamed of his own ancestors' part in the church's polygamist past, Art is eager to do his part to flush out the extremists.</p><p>Then a local polygamist &quot;prophet&quot; is brutally murdered and a shell-shocked young girl is found at the scene of the crime. Is she the victim's daughter, a child bride, or the murderer herself? Art attempts to investigate the death, as well as discover her identity, despite a &quot;wall of silence&quot; put up by polygamists who would rather mete out their own rough justice. Soon, however, Art discovers that the sect has much more to hide than he thought.</p><p>Historian and Hillerman Prize-winning author of <i>City of Saints </i>Andrew Hunt returns to 1930s Salt Lake City in this deeply researched mystery.<i>A Killing in Zion</i> portrays a city and a religion struggling to grow and shake off a notorious history that has not yet become a thing of the past.</p>