When Army Ranger Quinn Colson, newly-elected sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, is called out to investigate a child abuse case, he finds a horrifying scene of neglect, thirteen empty cribs, and a shoebox full of money. Janet and Ramon Torres seem to have skipped town -- but Colson's sure they'll come back for the cash. Convinced that they have a taste for guns, drugs, and human trafficking, Colson and Deputy Lillie Virgil find a link between...

"The extraordinary new novel in New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins' acclaimed series about the real Deep South-"a joy ride into the heart of darkness" (The Washington Post). Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down by a self-appointed posse, and lynched....

She was just seventeen, a high school dropout named Milly Jones, found walking down the middle of the highway, engulfed in flames. Even in a tough Mississippi county like Tibbehah, it shatters the community, and it is up to Sheriff Quinn Colson, back on the job after a year away, and his deputy Lillie Virgil, to investigate what happened and why. Before long, however, accusations start to fly, national media and federal authorities descend, and what...

"Quinn Colson returns to take down a criminal syndicate that has ravaged his community, threatened his family, and tried to have him killed"--