Gabriel Thane is the sheriff and lifetime resident of Carin County Illinois, committed to upholding the law and keeping the residents safe. Lieutenant Evie Blackwell is a State Police Detective skilled at investigations. She launches a new task force to reexamine unsolved crimes across the state. She begins work with the sheriffs department on a few of its most troubling missing-persons cases, a deputy, his wife and eleven-year old sons disappearance,...

Quinn Colson returns to take down a criminal syndicate that has ravaged his community, threatened his family, and tried to have him killed.

When trouble follows her to the town of Whitewater, Illinois, Rowena Brown, a free-spirited pet store owner who finds homes for "problem" animals, falls in love with a local deputy and single dad.

When the old prospector who raised Red is gunned down in Baker's Gap and the sheriff is wounded, fourteen- year-old Red tracks down the shooters and kills them. Sheriff Tom Harrison takes Red under his wing and teaches him all he knows about law enforcement until Red finishes school and joins the Texas Rangers.

Sheriff Troy David had hoped to marry Faith Beckwith, but she's ended the relationship because of misunderstandings--inadvertently caused by Troy's daughter. However, Troy has plenty to keep himself occupied, like the unidentified remains found in a cave outside of town.

The third in Jess Montgomery's exquisitely written Kinship series, The Stills is a triumph of storytelling by an extraordinary new talent in crime fiction.

"When forensic pathologist Grace Reilly performs an autopsy at the request of a grieving family, she discovers an unusual result-one that's suspiciously similar to a previous case. Suspecting foul play, Grace must convince Sheriff Nate Kincaid the deaths are related, but exposing the truth might destroy several lives . . . including their own"--