Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.

At a campsite in Snowball, Arkansas, Lucy bungles everything she attempts as she tries to impress Justin.

A prequel that goes back to the very beginning of Private Investigator Charlie Parker's astonishing career with his first terrifying case, in which his efforts to bring his wife and chid's killer to justice are stymied by corruption.

"After his son is convicted of capital murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in a junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords, notorious meth dealers and fanatical white supremacists, come to collect on Joanna as payment for a...