Bruce W. Most

A former big-city detective battles rustling and murder in modern-day cattle country in this award-winning whodunit

 Leaving behind a troubled past, former Baltimore detective Nick DeNunzio hires on as a Wyoming stock detective to stop a brutal string of cattle thefts. Chasing rustlers ought to be a lark even for a city-slicker cop. But when people start turning up dead, Nick realizes it’s not just cows being led to slaughter.

To catch the rustlers and stop the murders before he is the next victim, Nick must solve a seven-year-old crime, confront his own dark past . . .

 . . . and become a cattle rustler himself.

When the widow of David Dartman’s best friend demands he prove her husband’s suicide was in fact murder, he reluctantly agrees to “look into it.” Not only does the former investigative reporter believe her suspicions are unfounded, he doesn’t have time in his rat-race suburban life for murder. But his investigation and a string of bizarre, brutal killings unearth uncomfortable truths about his friend’s death—truths that jeopardize David’s marriage and force him to recognize that life is more than one long to-do list.“Wow! Not a book you can easily put down!”“A page-turning thriller with a lesson for the rat race in which we live today.”“Masterful plotting and skillf...