Trudy Roundtree, the newest—and only—female police officer for the Ogeechee, Georgia, police department is embroiled in a murder-by-arson mystery in a town where most everyone knows everybody else's secrets. But she soon learns that some can keep secrets very well.

Trudy Roundtree—the only woman on the Ogeechee police force—is not exactly excited about Hen Huckabee's request that she investigate Tanner Whitcomb's report that "he's run over somebody" given that Whitcomb is one of the town's odder he doesn't have a car or a driver's license, he simply walks/putt-putts around town holding his hands at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock on a hubcap. But when Trudy finally interprets Tanner's rambling, and the man leads her to a dead body with tire tracks on his shirt, Trudy has to think twice about the ability of a car-less weirdo to do someone in. Tanner's also "driving" with a brand-new hubcap, has the dead guy's watch and cell phone in his ever-present plastic bag, and swears he "bumped" the dead guy when he was "driving" the night before. Could it be that Tanner was actually the killer?

The discovery of a long-dead body in an abandoned refrigerator sends Ogeechee, Georgia, police officer Trudy Roundtree into the small town's past, where she uncovers rivalries, jealousy, and murder.

Book by Berry, Linda

Book by Linda Berry

Officer Trudy Roundtree persuades the chief to look into all the accidental deaths surrounding sixteen-year-old Crys Cleary.