The Ghosts of Buffalo Crossing — Gregory C. Randall

Park County Sheriff Jordan Tynes confronts a crime that has baffled previous sheriffs for fourteen years: What happened to the Colson brothers? Only George Black Crow, a Crow Indian, survived, and he won't talk. From the celebrated novelist, Gregory C. Randall.

For two days, Sheriff Jordan Tynes and her team followed the trail described by the prospectors who had found the bodies. A trail that led to two gold miners murdered in an old log cabin deep within the Absaroka Mountains. Finding only bones, the sheriff confirmed that both had been shot. Additional evidence indicated the murders occurred at least fourteen years earlier. Were these the Colson brothers? After returning to Livingston, Montana, the Park County sheriff began her search for the killer and launched an investigation that would uncover a family hiding secrets far more dangerous and deadly than any murder case she and her deputies had ever faced.

This is the fifth book in Sheriff Jordan Tynes's modern Western mystery series. It tells a story of ancient Crow Indian beliefs, a twisted family of bootleggers and drug dealers, and the sheriff's criminal investigation that relies as much on cunning as on facts. And it will break your heart.