MUCH AWAITED SEQUEAL
The Moonshine Messiah
Since succeeding her dearly departed husband, Bill, to become Jasper County’s first female sheriff, Mary Beth Cain has closed more cases than any three of her male predecessors combined. But nobody bats a thousand in the cop game. Nobody. And, ovaries aside, Mary Beth knows she’s no different. There’d been a handful of unsolveds during her tenure, victims and families denied their justice, and each and every one of them gnaws at her soul. She thinks about them late at night as she sips her whiskey, counting regrets like sheep.
But the case that haunts Mary Beth most is one that went cold before she was even on the force: the long-ago disappearance of a family friend, named Maria Ruiz. So when a country psychic’s vision leads to the discovery of Maria’s body, Mary Beth isn’t willing to chalk it up as genuine clairvoyance and goes all in on an investigation that cuts close to home.
Bustin’ Heads (and her family)
The Moonshine Messiah
Mary Beth Cain is a head busting sheriff in the West Virginia coalfields, whose job is already complicated by the fact her family runs the McCray County Mafia, a local hillbilly crime syndicate. But things get even more difficult when her crazy brother Sawyer, the cult leader of a booming militia movement, blows up a courthouse, making Mary Beth the only thing standing between the commandos and a Waco-style showdown with the feds.
Craig Johnson
author of the Walt Longmire series