Murder of the Prodigal Father

**A small town amateur sleuth faces off with local law enforcement to solve the murder of his estranged father.** It's 1996, and Connor Pierce must leave his struggling marriage in the tropics to manage the death of his estranged father. Connor enlisted in the Air Force to escape his crazy-making family. Twelve years later, even before Connor can plant his estranged father's discarded body in the ground, he concludes that the details of Dixon Pierce's perverted last hours add up to murder. Solving the mystery no one cares about requires the help from the high school cohorts he abandoned, Deputy Ruiz and alluring ex-lover Jasia. Contemplating the horrifying possibility that one of his own kin killed their dishonorable patriarch, and tripping into lustful abandon with the forbidden Jasia, Connor finds himself contemplating suicide beside the freezing waters of the Yellowstone River when a bullet sends him tumbling toward a cold, watery death. *Can Connor survive his father's philandering legacy?* A story of murder, sexual betrayal, and redemption.