An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence

BIG SKY, OLD BONES, AND MURDEROUS OBSESSION. BLUE DEER, MONTANA HAS IT ALL...

A Cleveland hunter had just shot off his best friend's hand and the first blizzard of the season was blowing into Blue Deer, Montana, when a camper found an old skeleton on Magpie Island. Sheriff Jules Clement, one-time archeologist, now his hometown's top cop, relishes the chance to identify the remains. In a small-town job riddled with gas station robberies and domestic abuse, the bones offer a chance to use his skills ... a diversion from a dying love affair... and a break from hunting a rapist who continues to strike. But old bones bring new troubles--the kind that have Jules questioning his own friends and family, stripping away his last illusions about justice ... and the kind that can get a lawman killed in a Montana minute.