When a school secretary is found murdered alongside a ditch outside of Cherokee Crossing Arkansas none of the usual scenarios seem to fit. Hick Blackburn a sheriff more interested in finding justice than keeping peace is compelled to construct the last months of her life to unearth what may have led to her death. With the citizens of Cherokee Crossing increasingly suspicious of the boys who found her body Hick must battle the towns narrowmindedness and quickly find those responsible. As the in