Dust in the Heart

<b>There's a killer stalking children in a small North Carolina town...and the only one who can stop him is the local Sheriff a man crippled physically and emotionally by a war that he's still fighting within himself. The haunting powerful new thriller by Ralph Dennis author of the legendary Hardman series of crime novels</b><p>Wilton Drake's hip was shattered by a sniper's bullet in Lebanon...and his heart was ripped apart by the wife who left him as lay in a military hospital. Now after fiteen years in the Navy he's returned to Edgefield North Carolina a broken man looking for a way to hold himself together. He finds it in a bottle...and behind a badge as Webster County's newly elected Sheriff...but his forbidden attraction to a mysterious stripper and his harrowing investigation into a horrific string of child murders might destroy what's left of him body and soul.<p>Ralph Dennis has mastered the genre and supplied top entertainment. <i>New York Times</I><p>His prose is muscular swift and highly readable. Joe R. Lansdale author of the <i>Hap & Leonard</i> novels the basis for the hit TV series.<p>Exceptional characterization strong and vigorous prose and a glimpse into a place and time that has long since disappeared.<i> Mystery Scene Magazine</i>An underappreciated master. Robert J. Randisi founder of the Private Eye Writers of America.<p> Straight-up hardboiled crime fiction written in a tight evocative voice with a wicked dark sense of humor. Lee Goldberg #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>True Fiction</i> and<i> Lost Hills</i>.