A Killing at the Creek

<p>Prosecutor Elsie Arnold loves her small-town home in the Ozark hills but she's been waiting for a murder to come along and make her career. So when a body is found under a bridge throat cut Elsie jumps at the chance to work on the case even if it's alongside the brash new chief assistant Chuck Harris--and her latest flame Detective Bob Ashlock.</p><p>But when the investigation reveals that the deceased woman was driving a school bus and the police locate the vehicle its interior covered in blood the occupant and only suspect is a fifteen-year-old boy. Elsie's in for more than she bargained for.</p><p>Win or lose this case will haunt her. No one has successfully prosecuted a juvenile for first-degree murder in McCown County. If she loses it's her career on the line and a chilling homicide unresolved; if she wins a boy's liberty will be taken from him before he reaches his sixteenth birthday.</p>