Eureka — William Diehl

The seamy past of glamorous California lies in the deceptively peaceful town of Eureka--once a bootlegger's paradise from which young, rugged Thomas Culhane briefly escaped to fight in World War I. Now it is a rebuilt metropolis where Sheriff Culhane is launching a bid to be the Golden State's next governor. But something just might threaten his ambitions. As police detective Zeke Bannon investigates a death that seems a sad accident, he unearths a decades-old secret that starts with a shoot-out, builds to a bloodbath, and could end up within the upper echelons of California's elite, forever changing the destiny of a state.