Blue Ridge — T.R. Pearson

T. R. Pearson's seventh novel, two riveting stories unfold: one in the wilds of Virginia and one on the streets of Manhattan. Ray Tatum is the new deputy sheriff of Hogarth, Virginia, located in the middle of nowhere with "nothing too awful gaudy afoot" until the discovery of a nearly complete set of human bones on the Appalachian Trail. Ray's cousin Paul is summoned to New York to identify the corpse of his son, whom he scarcely knew. As the facts behind the two deaths unwind, Pearson weaves an entrancing, eccentric, and unforgettable web; this is Southern storytelling at its best.