Table Rock Lake Word Search Mysteries · Book Three

Murder Under the Cedars

A November wind lays a tree over on a leased deer ridge, and there is a man in the root plate. He had been in the county three days in the fall of 1980 — loud in the cafe on the square, asking who around the lake had money — and then he was gone, and everybody was glad of it. The young woman who drove him out asked the sheriff twice to go up and look. Nobody went. Forty-six years on, no one who was on that ridge will talk about it. Retired biology teacher Nell Ashworth is new to the area, and what she has is a stand of cedar growing where the ground was opened once.

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