Barney's Return

In this, the third and final book of the Murder in Mayberry trilogy, while Jason struggles to accept his recent divorce, Barney Fife returns to Mayberry to claim his old job as Sheriff Taylor’s fulltime deputy, the position presently held by Jason himself. After a strange, disfigured drifter suddenly appears in the community, and one of Mayberry’s oldest, most disagreeable and disliked citizens is gruesomely murdered, the Sheriff’s Office swings into action. As the carnage escalates, Jason must decide whether he will stay in Mayberry or will leave forever.