Season of the Burning Souls — Ken Hodgson

STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Oct. 2006 Thomson hardcover, Ken Hodgson (Lone Survivor). New Mexico, 1943. A hot summer scorches up when residents of a small town begin burning to death. Spontaneous human combustion or some very strange assassinations? It's up to Sheriff Sam Sinrod and the county coroner, Bryce Whitlock, to find out. But how do you investigate an unexplained death when all you have is a box of ashes? And what possible connection could an elderly nun, an insane former state employee, and an itinerant banjo player have to the case? - Amazon