Cold Was The Ground

Cold Was the Ground is a neo-western crime novel in which a small Texas town becomes the crucible for a series of ritualistic murders that force Sheriff Joanne Dalton to confront not only a killer, but the moral architecture of violence, faith, and history that have shaped her life. As the investigation deepens, the book moves beyond procedural into existential turmoil where justice, guilt, and belief erode, and what remains is a stark vision of America stripped to its bones.

October 1984. I...