The Fallen by David Baldacci

Another book in the series about Amos Decker, the memory man.  In this volume, Amos has accompanied his partner, Alex Jamison, on vacation to see her sister, whose husband was recently promoted to a management position in a fulfillment center.  Amos sees a flicker in an empty house behind them, sees a plane in the sky and hears an odd noise.  He worries that a fire has started and so runs to the house to check it out and discovers a body hanging above blood.  Everything goes downhill from there with murders happening one after the other.  There is a descendent of the man who built the town and named it for himself, there are suspected bad cops and there are bad cops.  And there is a drug mill in town and a conspiracy to steal the rich guy’s estate to look for a treasure.

The only sore thumb is how long the explanation takes at the end of the book – and a bit of a tomato surprise in the reveal of one of the bad guys.