"Margaret Maron is one of the best writers in the business. Read her. That's an order."—Elizabeth Peters

After Jake Honeycutt dies in a hunting accident, his pregnant wife Kate moves to his family farm in North Carolina and soon discovers that she is a Yankee outsider, and that Jake's death was no accident.

Margaret Maron is the author of twenty-six crime novels, including Bootlegger's Daughter, which is the only mystery to have won all of the major mystery awards: the Edgar, Macavity, Anthony, and Agatha awards.