Doug Fletcher's Thanksgiving vacation is interrupted by a phone call from his Texas U.S. Park Service superintendent. A Wyoming coroner determines that a climber's fall from Devils Tower isn't the accident it first appeared to be. Doug is thrown into an investigation where he peels back the layers of rumors and lies provided by colorful Black Hills residents to find a murderer in a region where the deer hunting season is winding down and everyone has a gun in their pickup truck.

Review Snippets (Goodreads)

-Dean has become a master at weaving a good tales. A few times the pages flew by as I was trying to keep up with the suspense-nice!

-Great story line makes the book hard to put down. An easy read that's well researched and written.