Life has been difficult lately for Somerton County Deputy Sheriff John Lee Quarrels. He's on the trail of a sexual predator, his love life is in turmoil, his soon-to-be ex-wife just served him with divorce papers, someone has stolen his police car and is using its radio to broadcast offensive jokes, a 350-pound redneck named Baby Bubba just tried to brain him with a shovel, and all of that happened before John Lee shot the dead guy!
Come along for the ride as John Lee tries to keep the peace in his rural Florida county as he deals with daily trials and tribulations that include jealous and vengeful women, a racist superior officer with a grudge to settle, a collection of characters that show the best and the worst of the Old and New South, and a rattlesnake straight out of your worst nightmares.

As sultry as a Florida back road in August, as mysterious as the South's live oak trees dripping with Spanish moss, and as deadly as a copperhead strike, the fourth book in New York Times bestselling author Nick Russell's John Lee Quarrels series will keep you listening late into the night.