Blood Country (Claire Watkins)

This first in a series launch introduces Claire Watkins a deputy sheriff for the Pepin County Police Department. Claire a former Minneapolis police detective and her 10-year-old daughter Meg fled the Twin Cities after her husband Steve also a cop was killed.. When Landers Anderson--an elderly neighbor who befriended Claire and Meg--dies of a heart attack after being sideswiped with a shovel Claire determines to find the culprit. This involves delving into Landerss family history and investigating the machinations of a right-wing group Homeowners of America that is buying up property to build an environmentally unsound development.. At the same time Meg fearfully admits to Claire that she saw the man who killed Steve. Claire contacts her former partner Det. Bruce Jacobs and prods him into accelerating the investigation into Steves death.