Death at the Black Bull

Hayward is a sleepy Southwestern town full of cattle trucks and tumbleweeds. Virgil Daltons been the sheriff for over a dozen years and has lived there all his life. Its a place where everybody pretty much knows everybodybut they dont know each others secretsBuddy Hinton is just a good ole boy. So when he disappears after a night drinking at the Black Bull his friends just figure he went down to Mexico to find himself a girlfriend and eventually will come back. But this case quickly becomes a homicide after the sheriff discovers the missing man floating in one of his stock tanks.For a man who wasnt known to have enemies Buddy clearly upset someone. Figuring out who that was will require Virgil and his deputy Jimmy to retrace Buddys last stepsand to remain a step ahead of a murderer who may have no qualms about killing again