"On a remote corner of his farm, Judge Deborah Knott's father, Kezzie, discovers the body of a man bludgeoned to death. Deborah's husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, uncovers a long-simmering hostility between Kezzie and the slain man over a land dispute. Deborah's brothers are reluctant to talk about the dead man. Is the murder linked to Kezzie's illegal whiskey business? And could his courtship of Deborah's mother have something to do with the bad blood between the two families? For years she has wondered how the daughter of a wealthy attorney could have married a widowed, semi-illiterate bootlegger..."--Back cover.
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