The Scarlet Oak: Murder, Spies, and Spirits

On September 23, 2018 two seventeen-year-old high school sweethearts returning home from a celebratory birthday date are discovered dead. Their car found off the road, in a vacant horse pasture in front of an enormously old deciduous scarlet oak, on the lavish estate of J. Barrington Cook the fourth. A wealthy, but secretive fourth generation landowner.

Finn, a decorated combat veteran, with ten years as a hardened and dogged county homicide investigator, happens upon the recent, yet unrepo...