Driftless Identity

When the storm clears, only questions remain—was the killer ever really there, or just a shadow in the night?

It’s late August and the Driftless region is burning up from heat and lack of rain. Finally on a humid night, the weather boils over the horizon and delivers a whopper of a thunderstorm. As the wind and rain slash the vegetation and force motorists off the road, a young clerk at a convenience gas station in Stoddard along the Mississippi River is brutally murdered. When Lt. Jim Higgi...