J C Paulson

Two Hundred Bones J C Paulson

He's been lying in the forest for forty years. His killer thought he'd never be found. Then Hope Rampling, in pursuit of wild berries, stumbles and falls . . . and finds a bone lying under the leaves and dirt. At first, she and her lover wonder if it once belonged to a bear. Or a deer. But no. It's a human shoulder blade. By the next day, Hope's sister Grace and brother-in-law to-be, Adam Davis, are on the scene, along with a forensic anthropologist. Slowly, painstakingly, the dead man's skeleton is exposed . . . and so is the bootlegging history of a remote region where greed once ruled and the law was late in coming.