Innocence Road

The body of a young woman is found in the desert outside a nothing Texas town, stirring memories of the murder of the daughter of a prominent citizen 15 years ago. Leanne Everhart, a local cop and daughter of one of the officers who solved the original case, is in a terrible place. The man who confessed to the original crime has had his conviction overturned, and she sees connections that no one else sees in the two crimes. As she digs further, she finds that there are more dead women, nearly one a year, whose existence has been ignored by politics and local inertia. She sees patterns, but there are no funds to pursue the case. Long-held local loyalties and family ties stand in her way, but it’s the politics and scandals that are the true impediments. Tough, indomitable Leanne calls in every favor she can while risking her career and her life in the process. This is an edge-of-the-seat read that’s not for the faint of heart.