An old ranch with a name the locals won't say out loud gives up its dead after decades of silence. Ruth Baker reopens a wound the whole valley wanted to stay buried.
The orchard's trees grow heavy and red over ground no one will till. Ruth Baker learns what the roots have been drinking, and why the family that owns it never sells a single acre.
No prints, no witnesses, no pattern anyone can name - a killer who leaves nothing but bodies. Katie Ford hunts a phantom the Bureau swears doesn't exist.