{"product_id":"the-reckoning-luke-bruhns-9798255525652","title":"The Reckoning: A Braun Cases Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetroit, 1965. Seventeen For Sale signs in a dead man's station wagon. A vacant house on a block where the neighbors are selling scared and buying desperate.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetective John Braun knows the murder is the least of the crimes. The investigation uncovers an institutional machine that buys homes from panicking white families at fire-sale prices and resells them to Black families on predatory contracts designed to fail - a blockbusting enterprise that profits from racial fear on both sides of the color line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe evidence leads from a dead real estate speculator to a statewide operation run by a man whose phone number connects to the same power structure Braun has been mapping for five years. But dismantling the machine might harm the very families it exploits - because the predatory contracts are the only door open to Black homeownership in a city that has locked every other one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the department orders Braun to stay in his lane, he takes the case federal. The cost is everything he's built - his badge, his standing, his family's sense of safety. But the evidence is a shadow burned into concrete, and shadows outlast the institutions that cast them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e is the fourth novel in \u003cb\u003eThe Braun Cases\u003c\/b\u003e, a five-book series following John Braun through 1960s Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luke Bruhns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798255525652\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d","brand":"Luke Bruhns","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48588481331455,"sku":"9798255525652","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-reckoning-luke-bruhns-9798255525652","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}