Birkett's Twelfth Corpse: The Reckoning At Hiney's Slough

For forty years, Fred Birkett and Hank Room have competed along the Wisconsin River, racing currents and each other to recover the drowned. What began as rough rivalry has hardened into something darker, and when a young man vanishes beneath the water one July night, both old rivermen know the count will change before sunrise.

Birkett has always treated his strange luck as a joke. Room has never laughed. As lanterns swing across the black water and boats spread downstream, one of them claims...