Failure analyst Owen Allison returns to his native West Virginia, where his mother faces cancer and construction dumping threatens a family hollow. Owen’s Aunt Lizzie, shotgun in hand, vows to stop the dump trucks. A trucker is killed and Aunt Lizzie swears she pulled the trigger. But Owen thinks she’s hiding something. He sets out to find the truth, putting himself in the crosshairs of a deadly conspiracy, as his mother undergoes her own ordeal.

This Mystery Company edition restores to print the third novel in the Owen Allison series.

Paperback | ISBN: 978-1-932325-43-0 | 2014

“Billheimer has hit a rich enough vein to mine for quite a while as he continues to explore the delicate interaction between progress and preservation in rural West Virginia.” – Kirkus Reviews

“… a first rate crime novel. [Billheimer’s] characters are so vividly drawn they threaten to wander off the page and into the real world.” – Booklist