On March 1, 2014, in the small town of La Grange, Kentucky, a police officer arrival delivers a one-way ticket to the grave at the door of a prominent couple. There was no wrongdoing from the officer on the conduct of his duty, and there were not, in fact, clues as to the power of a business card.

As Jorge Rivera reconstructs the death of a woman and the investigation that led to the prosecution of bank executives and imprisonment of the guilty, he generates spellbinding suspense and surprising empathy. Money & Greed is a work that makes one cry, laugh and goes beyond the...