He's been lying in the forest for forty years. His killer thought he'd never be found. Then Hope Rampling, in pursuit of wild berries, stumbles and falls . . . and finds a bone lying under the leaves and dirt. At first, she and her lover wonder if it once belonged to a bear. Or a deer. But no. It's a human shoulder blade. By the next day, Hope's sister Grace and brother-in-law to-be, Inspector Adam Davis, are on the scene along with a forensic anthropologist. Slowly, painstakingly, the dead man's skeleton is exposed . . . and so is the bootlegging history of a remote region where greed once ruled and the law was late in coming.
He's been lying in the forest for forty years. His killer thought he'd never be found. Then Hope Rampling, in pursuit of wild berries, stumbles and falls . . . and finds a bone lying under the leaves and dirt. At first, she and her lover wonder if it once belonged to a bear. Or a deer. But no. It's a human shoulder blade. By the next day, Hope's sister Grace and brother-in-law to-be, Inspector Adam Davis, are on the scene along with a forensic anthropologist. Slowly, painstakingly, the dead man's skeleton is exposed . . . and so is the bootlegging history of a remote region where greed once ruled and the law was late in coming.