Resting Place
By Joe Lee
2022
First Published
3.88
Average Rating
315
Number of Pages
At first glance, the northeast Mississippi town of Oakdale seems like a quaint little place, but something brewing deep in the woods is making a lot of money for some very powerful people. When the youngest son of a fine Oakdale family goes missing, Smart County Sheriff Robert Glass puts out an all-points bulletin and launches a search. Then Glass himself disappears. Set in 1984 and a prequel to the long-running Oakdale suspense series, Resting Place introduces young Billy Joe Stone, a hard-charging deputy sheriff who vows to clean up what he understood from Glass is a vast web of corruption. But does Billy Joe know too much for his own good? Are the people close to him already in danger? And can they be the father of his best friend from high school, who works in law enforcement? The gossipy office manager who reports to the sheriff? The seemingly kind grandmother who has a key to the house where the missing sheriff lives? And why does that college kid, Mark Myrick III, keep turning up in the middle of departmental investigations? A fast-paced, atmospheric tale of greed, power, loss, and redemption, Resting Place is full of heroes and villains who will stay with you long after you have turned the final page. You will almost be able to smell the cheeseburgers cooking at the town hamburger stand, and the pot roast at the Oakdale Café is to die for. But in a town loaded with old money, skeletons in most every closet, and people all up in the business of their neighbors, no secret is ever safe.
Avg Rating
3.88
Number of Ratings
8
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