Book Description

(Sequel to Hear the Wind Blow ) The Failure Drawer, a sad annex deep in the bowels of the Karuk County Sheriff's Department, houses discarded cases of those murdered but who wander unavenged. That's about to change. Relentless detective Delroy Church is back. His rehab from near fatal gunshot wounds continues as he is recruited by his sheriff to helm a cold case squad of one. Sifting through the frustrations and derelictions of yesteryear, he is drawn to the thirty-year-old murder of a mixed-race young woman whose body was discovered three years after her abduction. Stuffed in a barrel and heartlessly dropped in a remote glen of Karuk County's shadowy green canopy, the dead girl will awaken an anger in a detective who has been dealt too much pain in a career littered with broken souls.The county's complex, shelved past, with its beauty and sorrow, emerges for Roy as he scouts a trail of shrouded clues. To track an elusive prey, he will work backward through the entwined worlds of mobsters, Native Americans, loggers, and a country bar that won't give up its secrets easily. He will traverse a snarled history of ghostly memories, as he tirelessly pursues retribution for a young girl who was born with nothing and took even less with her when she died.Aiding him is the security detail riding shotgun when he's in the field. Detective Alison Baker, a sarcastic, scarred cop, has one duty: to see that the celebrated Roy Church makes it back to the barn at the end of each shift. She will have her work cut out, protecting a man who dances with the Devil.